Detail of Prince Muizuddin Sultan in ‘The Reception of the Mysorean Hostage Princes by Marquis Cornwallis’, Mysore, India. Artist: Robert Home. National Army Museum in Chelsea, London.

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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

Detail of Prince Muizuddin Sultan in ‘The Reception of the Mysorean Hostage Princes by Marquis Cornwallis’, Mysore, India. Artist: 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

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