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The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the re-treat from seringapatam   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
The coming-on of the monsoons;-or-the re-treat from seringapatam
Description
English: Cornwallis, [It has been suggested that he is William Monson (1760-1807), then serving under Cornwallis, but as a captain in the 52nd he was not of sufficient note in England for caricature and Cornwallis's star removes all doubt of his identity. 'Monsoon' is not a pun, see BMSat 7938.] mounted on an ass, flees terror-stricken from a fortess (right) from behind the battlements of which the grinning Tipu Sultan, holding a sabre, urinates a devastating stream upon the fleeing British soldiers (right). Two cannon belch fire and smoke from loopholes. Cornwallis, wearing his Garter star, gallops past the bodies of dead soldiers, he drops his sabre and his reins, holding up his arms; his hat flies off. His ass is muzzled by a long nose-bag. Beneath the design is etched: '"Whats the matter Falstaff" - "Whats the matter! here be Four of


"us, have taken a City this morning - where is it? - where is it? where is it? "taken from us it is; a hundred Thousand, upon poor Four of us, I am a
"rogue, if I was not at half-sword with a Thousand of them for two hours
"together, I have escaped by miracle, I am eight times thrust through the
"doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through & through, my Sword
"hack'd like a hand-saw, I never dealt better since I was a man: all would
"not do!' 6 December 1791


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 223 millimetres
Width: 280 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.6135
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on the retreat of Cornwallis from Seringapatam, see BMSat 7928, &c. Cornwallis's letter of 16 May to Sir Charles Oakeley ('Cornwallis Correspondence', ii. 91), published in the 'Gazette', &c, 2 Dec, appears to be satirized in the quotation from 'Henry IV', Part I, ii. 4.

Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6135
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