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Seringapatam   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Henri Merke  (fl. 1799–1820)  wikidata:Q25500754
 
Alternative names
H. Merke
Description Swiss engraver
Date of birth/death 18th century
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
 Edit this at Wikidata		 19th century
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Location of birth Niederweningen
Work period 1799 Edit this at Wikidata–1820 Edit this at Wikidata
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q25500754
After James Hunter  (1755–1792)  wikidata:Q25340033
 
Alternative names
James Hunter
Description British military officer and painter
British army officer and artist
Date of birth/death 1755 Edit this at Wikidata 1792 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Vellore
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q25340033
Author
Francis William Blagdon, 1778-1819
Title
Seringapatam
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: Plate 1 (second including the frontispiece) from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore', based on a picture by James Hunter.

Plate two from 'Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore', based on a picture by James Hunter. The ancient fortress city of Seringapatam (now called Srirangapatna or Srirangapatnam) was the capital for the Muslim Rajas of Mysore, Haidar Ali (c.1722 - 1782) and his eldest son, Tipu Sultan (1753 -1799). It was located on an island in the Cauvery (Kaveri) River approximately 9 miles from Mysore and 75 miles from Bangalore. The name is derived from the ancient Hindu temple of Sri Ranganatha Swami which is located at the western end of the island. The city became the site of two of the most famous sieges of the Anglo-Mysore Wars (in 1792 and 1799).

Item number: 30002
Depicted place Srirangapatna
Date 1804
date QS:P571,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium aquatint print coloured
Dimensions height: 27.7 cm (10.9 in); width: 34.5 cm (13.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.75U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,34.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
X768/3(2)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000007683u00002000.html
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