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'The Tiger and the Thistle: Tipu Sultan and the Scots
in India' exhibition:
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 29th July - 3rd October
1999 |
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Room
VII: The Third Mysore War section, dominated by the painting
of 'Lord Cornwallis Receiving Tipu Sahib's Sons as Hostages
at Seringapatam,' by Robert Home, who witnessed the event. On
the adjacent wall: contemporary landscape drawings, and watercolours
of Tipu soldiers, visible in the painting. The oil sketch for
another version, by Mather Brown, hangs to the left, above an
engraving of the palanquin presented to the elder brother by
Lord Cornwallis. On the right: John Smart's exquisite pencil
portraits of the hostage sons. |
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