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RICHARD EARLOM (1743-1822) AFTER JOHN ZOFFANY (1733-1810)
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match
mezzotint by Earlom after Zoffany (555 x 725mm), published by Robert Sayer, 1792, with engraved key plate (310 x 415mm), 1794 (occasional minor repairs)
Embassy of Hyderbeck to Calcutta
mezzotint (540 x 715mm), with engraved key plate (335 x 425mm), both published by Laurie & Whittle, 1800 (trimmed to plate mark on two sides, key plate repaired).
A Tiger Hunting in the East Indies
mezzotint (535 x 705mm), proof before title, with painter and engraver faintly lettered, with engraved key plate (317 x 403mm), published 1802 by Laurie & Whittle (trimmed to plate mark on two sides, key plate neatly restored)
Exhibited: Embassy of Hyderbeck, India Observed, no. 72.
Earlom's highly-popular prints, each with accompanying keyplate, of Zoffany's oil paintings depicting detailed scenes of Indian life, witnessed at first hand between 1784 and 1788. Zoffany went to Calcutta in September 1783 and was rapidly accepted into Society by the wealthy British families there, painting many of their portraits, including that of the Governor-General, Warren Hastings. Hastings, together with leading Indian and European members of Lucknow society, attended the Cock Match organised in April 1784 by Colonel John Mordaunt, Commander of the Nawab Asaf-ud-daula's Bodyguard, and a favorite at his court. The second print illustrates the running amok of a musth elephant, witnessed by Zoffany in 1786 when he joined Asaf-ud-Daula's minister, Haidar Beg Khan, who was on his way to meet Lord Cornwallis. The image of tiger-hunting shows the attack and death of the Royal Tiger, near Chandernagur, Bengal, in 1788, by a party of gentlemen, including Zoffany, and their attendants, mounted on elephants. (6)
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match
mezzotint by Earlom after Zoffany (555 x 725mm), published by Robert Sayer, 1792, with engraved key plate (310 x 415mm), 1794 (occasional minor repairs)
Embassy of Hyderbeck to Calcutta
mezzotint (540 x 715mm), with engraved key plate (335 x 425mm), both published by Laurie & Whittle, 1800 (trimmed to plate mark on two sides, key plate repaired).
A Tiger Hunting in the East Indies
mezzotint (535 x 705mm), proof before title, with painter and engraver faintly lettered, with engraved key plate (317 x 403mm), published 1802 by Laurie & Whittle (trimmed to plate mark on two sides, key plate neatly restored)
Exhibited: Embassy of Hyderbeck, India Observed, no. 72.
Earlom's highly-popular prints, each with accompanying keyplate, of Zoffany's oil paintings depicting detailed scenes of Indian life, witnessed at first hand between 1784 and 1788. Zoffany went to Calcutta in September 1783 and was rapidly accepted into Society by the wealthy British families there, painting many of their portraits, including that of the Governor-General, Warren Hastings. Hastings, together with leading Indian and European members of Lucknow society, attended the Cock Match organised in April 1784 by Colonel John Mordaunt, Commander of the Nawab Asaf-ud-daula's Bodyguard, and a favorite at his court. The second print illustrates the running amok of a musth elephant, witnessed by Zoffany in 1786 when he joined Asaf-ud-Daula's minister, Haidar Beg Khan, who was on his way to meet Lord Cornwallis. The image of tiger-hunting shows the attack and death of the Royal Tiger, near Chandernagur, Bengal, in 1788, by a party of gentlemen, including Zoffany, and their attendants, mounted on elephants. (6)
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