- Title:
- Good News from Madras
- Date:
- 1791
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 3/4 × 26 1/4 inches (37.5 × 66.7 cm), Image: 12 7/8 × 25 3/4 inches (32.7 × 65.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, lower right: "Chart of | India | and | Deccan"; lower left: "The Patriot's eye in a fine phrensy rolling, | Doth glance from Heaven to Hell from Hell to Heaven! | And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, | The Patriot's pen turns them to shapes, and gives | To airy nothing a local habitation and a name."; lower right: "The Patriot's eye in a fine phrensy rolling, | Doth glance from Heaven to Hell, from Hell to Heaven! | And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown | The Patriot's pen turns them to shapes, and gives | To airy nothing a local habitation and a name."; below image, lower center: "London Pub:d Dec:r 1791 by W Holland No. 50, Oxford St."; lower left: "GOOD NEWS FROM MADRAS. | Lord Cornwalles defeated, Tippoo Sultan Triumphant, and the | British Oppressors extirpated from India."; lower right: "GOOD NEWS FROM MADRAS. | Britannia triumphant; Tyranny punished; and the peaceable possession | of India secured to Great Britain for ever!"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1659
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- caricature
- Associated Places:
- Chennai | India | Tamil Nadu
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42472
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Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Good News from Madras, 1791
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