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"Robert Lord Clive,..." (c. 1760 England)
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Dimensions
10.00inch wide 14.00inch high (25.40 cm wide 35.56 cm high)
Framed Dimensions12.50inch framed width 16.50inch framed height (31.75 cm framed width 41.91 cm framed height)
LiteratureRobert, Lord Clive and Baron Plassey (1725-1774) founder of British rule in India, was born in Shropshire. At the age of 19 he was made a clerk in the East India Company's service, but soon quitted his employment in that capacity for the army. He distinguished himself against the rajah of Tanjore, and was appointed commissary. In 1751 he advised an attack on Arcot, in the Carnatic, took it from and held it against the French, and after this and other brilliant successes, returned to England and was made lieutenant-colonel in the king's service. He went out again, and marched against the nabob Surajah Dowlah, and overthrew him at the battle of Plassey in 1757. He established the British power in Calcutta, and was raised to the peerage. When he finally returned to England, a very wealthy man, he was accused of corruption and although this charge was not proven, the upset was said to have contributed to his addiction to opium, and he took his own life in 1774.
Description / Expertise
Reverse painted mezzotint engraved by C. Corbutt after Thomas Gainsborough. "London Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, Robert Sayer in Fleet Streetand Carrington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard."
Original carved "Hogarth" frame.
gbp 980 (Pound Sterling)
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