Detail of Prince Muizuddin Sultan in
‘The Reception of the Mysorean Hostage Princes by Marquis Cornwallis’
by Robert Home
National Army Museum in Chelsea, London
The bejewelled Prince Muizuddin (Moiz-Ud-Din) Sultan.
The Princes were dressed in long white muslin gowns, and red turbans. They had several rows of large pearls round their necks, from which was suspended an ornament consisting of a ruby and an emerald of considerable size, surrounded by large brilliants; and in their turbans, each had a sprig of rich pearls.
Source: toshkhana
‘The Reception of the Mysorean Hostage Princes by Marquis Cornwallis’, 26 February 1792.
Oil on canvas by Robert Home (1752-1834), c.1793.
Location: National Army Museum, Battle gallery
AM Accession Number: NAM. 1976-11-86-1
