How to gain a compleat victory and say you got safe out of the enemys reach [graphic].

Creator:

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London] :
Pubd. Decr. 15, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly,
[15 December 1791]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm

Notes:

Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue.
Title etched below image.

Abstract:

"Tipu Sultan (left) gallops (right to left) past Cornwallis who is seated in an ornate chair on the back of an ill-drawn elephant. Tipu, rising in his stirrups, excretes a blast which displaces a boy-mahout on the elephant's neck and strikes Cornwallis. He says, "Now my Lord I'll Tip you the Swamps". The horse excretes a blast directed at the elephant's eye. The elephant, raising its trunk, says, "I wish I could run as fast as he how i would thump him." Cornwallis, with his sabre raised above his head, his left fist clenched, says, "These Monsoons are more Violent than ever I knew them before Boy turn back again." The boy says, "Yes my Lord I am going backwards Pr force." Behind Cornwallis's seat is a box inscribed 'Rice for Gruel during the Monsoons'. Behind Tipu (left) is a circular fort inscribed 'Seringapatam'."--British Museum catalogue.

Topics:

Daggers & swords.
Defecation.
Elephants.
Horses.
Military retreats--British--India.
Urination.

Topics:

India--History--Mysore War, 1790-1792.

Topics:

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis,--Marquis,--1738-1805.
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis,--Marquis,--1738-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli,--Nawab of Mysore,--1753-1799--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1791.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1791.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

791.12.15.01+
791.12.15.01+ Impression 1
791.12.15.01+ Impression 2
791.12.15.01+ Impression 3

Orbis Record:

7784149

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07277

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7932

OID:

17328403

PID:

digcoll:5234135