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'. 15 december 1791. Hand-coloured etching. Date: 1791. Dimensions: Height: 243 mm; Width: 350 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Cornwallis, . Collection: British Museum. How to gain a compleat victory, and say, you got safe out of the enemy's reach (BM 1868,0808.6139)
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