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Portrait of Cowasjee, 'a Mahratta of the cast[e] of husbandmen' and bullock driver with the British army in the Third Anglo-Mysore War, who had his nose cut off while a prisoner of Tipu Sultan, the nose then being reconstructed using a flap of skin brought down from the forehead; bust portrait of Cowasjee, three-quarters to right, looking to front, wearing turban and drape over his left shoulder, traces of scarring on his forehead; below, diagrams of the skin graft and the wax plate used to cut the correct shape of skin needed for the reconstruction. 1795
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