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Siege and Capture of Seringapatam, 1799.

Capture of Seringapatam, 1799, bronze medal by G Mills and N G A Brenet, head of the Marquis of Wellesley left, MARQS WELLESLEY GOVR AND CAPTN GENL OF INDIA, rev. two British East India Company soldiers, one bearing a company standard, the other defeating a Mysorean in front of the throne of Sultan Tipu, SERINGAPTAM MAY IV TH MDCCLXXXXIX, 41mm (Pudd 799.1; BHM 478; Eimer 904). Extremely fine.

Could the figure on the ground actually represent Tipu? Certainly he is wearing a jeweled turban, a necklace and is in the vicinity of a throne. The clothes he wears, are not unlike those the sultan wears in Samuel William Reynold's print of Tipu's death, and medal engravers are known to have used existing images as inspiration. Contemporary accounts tell us that Tipu took part in the fighting at Seringaptam personally though he was fatally injured there and his body was found in a tunnel system into which he had retreated.

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