NAM.1998-06-72-1

Inhuman Treatment of Captain Donald Campbell in India, 1780. Etching, published 1780 (c); the captain and a colleague seated in chains, watched over by Indian guards with Hyder Ali in the background; Captain Donald Campbel (1751 or 1741-1804) , author of ‘A Journey overland to India’; the print most probably relates to a subsequent edition published as a chap-book: ‘Shipwreck and Captivity of Donald Campbell’, which gives an account of his imprisonment by Hyder Ali; according to the book title he was ‘commander of a regiment of Cavalry in the service of the Nabob of the Carnatic Indian Army’; he was made a captain in the Madras Army in 1769.

1st Mysore War (1767-1769), 2nd Mysore War (1780-1784)