[India] Storming of Seringapatam.
[After Isaac Robert Cruikshank.] Radcliffe sculp. [n.d., c.1812.] Very rare etching. Sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some cockling and time-damage. An illustration from Clarke's 'Life of Wellington', depicting the siege of Seringapatam (5 April 4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. Two officers standing at left beside a flag-bearer, as troops storm through a large archway at right with Indian soldiers lined along the top of the walls.
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