Print made by Daniel Orme, 1766–1837, Britishafter Mather Brown, 1761–1831, American, active in Britain
Title:
The Delivery of the Definitive Treaty by the Hostage Princes into the Hands of Lord Cornwallis
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/4 x 25 3/8 inches (51.4 x 64.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered lower left: "Mather Brown Pinx.t Historical Painter to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York"; lettered lower center: "To the Honorable the East India Compnay | This plate representing the Delivery of the DEFINITIVE TREATY BY THE HOSTAGE PRINCES into the Hands of Lord Cornwalls | is with Permission humbly Dedicated by their faithful and obedient Servt. Mather Brown. | London, Published December 21, 1793, and sold for the proprietor by D. Orme, No. 14 Old Bond Street: and by Walker & Brachenbury, No.7 Cornhill "; lettered lower right: "Daniel Orme Sculp.t Historical Engraver to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2012.6.1
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
military art | princes | hostages | turbans | historical subject | sultans | treaty
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Victorian visions of war & peace : aesthetics, sovereignty & violence in the British Empire, c.1851-1900, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, p. 121, fig. 40, TR820.6 .W55 2021 (YCBA)