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ISBN/UID: 9781851775750
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Publication date: 01 November 2009
Description
Tipu's Tiger is one of the V&A's most enduringly famous and fascinating objects. Commissioned in the 1790s by Tipu Sultan of Mysore, India, this extraordinary wooden automaton of a tiger devouring a British soldier was a symbol of the Sultan's...
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96 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781851775750
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Publication date: 01 November 2009
Description
Tipu's Tiger is one of the V&A's most enduringly famous and fascinating objects. Commissioned in the 1790s by Tipu Sultan of Mysore, India, this extraordinary wooden automaton of a tiger devouring a British soldier was a symbol of the Sultan's...