print
- Museum number
- 1871,0812.4098
- Title
- Object: A singular operation.
- Description
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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
Stipple
- Production date
- 1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 239 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Third Anglo-Mysore War 1789-1792
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0812.4098
