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Chinroyen-Droog   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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John Wells  (fl. 1785–1803)  wikidata:Q120633987
 
Alternative names
J. Wells
Description engraver and publisher
Work period 1785 Edit this at Wikidata–1803 Edit this at Wikidata
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q120633987
After Sir Alexander Allan, 1st Baronet  (1764–1820)  wikidata:Q16146402
 
After Sir Alexander Allan, 1st Baronet
Alternative names
Alexander Allan
Description British politician and painter
Date of birth/death 1764 Edit this at Wikidata 14 September 1820 Edit this at Wikidata
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q16146402
Title
Chinroyen-Droog
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: This uncoloured aquatint is taken from plate 8 of Captain Alexander Allan's 'Views in the Mysore Country'. A hill-fort, Channarayanadurga is in the Tumkur district of Karnataka and is one of the nava-durgas ('nine-forts') around Bangalore. Small but strong, it surrendered to troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell, 23 July 1791. Control was officially ceded to the British by the Treaty of Seringapatam at the conclusion of the war in 1792.
Item number: 3788
Depicted place Channarayana Durga
Date 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium aquatint print
Dimensions height: 33.4 cm (13.1 in); width: 47.3 cm (18.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,33.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,47.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
X378(8)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000378u00008000.html
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