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Creator:
Krafft, Johann Peter, 1780–1856
Title(s):
The storming of Seringapatam : the first important engagement in which the Duke of Wellington was engaged in India / painted by Peter Krafft.
Additional Title(s):
Specimen premium plate presented with Tallis's edition of the life of Wellington.
Published/Created:
London ; Published by John Tallis, [1853]
New York : Published by John Tallis, [1853]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; 43 x 37 cm, folded to 29 x 22 cm., in boards 29 x 23 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS474.1 .K73 1853+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Issued by the publisher in blind-stamped cloth boards, with title stamped in gilt: Specimen premium plate presented with Tallis's edition of the life of Wellington.
BAC: British Art Center copy folded into publisher's original cloth portfolio. Includes, on verso of front cover, an advertisement for Tallis's illustrated edition of Lieut.-Col. William Freke Williams' life of Wellington.
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- History -- 1800-1837.
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 19th century.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
India -- History -- Mysore War, 1799.
Mysore (India) -- History.
Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa (India) -- History -- Siege, 1799.
Tallis, John -- Publisher.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852.
Williams, William Freke, 1792-1860. Life and times of the late Duke of Wellington.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1853.
Publishers' advertisements.
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