File:View of Mysore from Rayakottai (Mysore). 5 March 1799.jpg

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English: Artist: Trapaud, Elisha (1750-1828)

Medium: Watercolour Date: 1799 Water-colour drawing by Elisha Trapaud of the view of Mysore from Rayakottai, dated 5 March 1799. Inscribed on the back in ink: 'No 9. S.E. view of Mysore from Ryacottah. 5 March, 1799.'

Rayakottai was part of a chain of military outposts used by Tipu Sultan’s forces on their campaigns against the British in the Tamil country. This view shows the dramatic hill-country of this area south of Bangalore in the modern-day state of Karnataka.
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Source https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=rayakottai
Author Trapaud, Elisha

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