File:Cheyt-syngs, ghost. (BM 1868,0808.5695).jpg
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Cheyt-syngs, ghost.
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| Title |
Cheyt-syngs, ghost. |
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| Description |
English: Hastings (right) shrinks in terror at the apparition of Chait Singh (left) who emerges from clouds, a rope round his neck, his left hand raised threateningly. His turban is inscribed 'Cheyt Sing.' They stand on opposite sides of a rectangular table covered with a fringed cloth, behind which sits a lady reading a book which lies on the table: 'The State of India'. Her dress and large feathered hat are heavily decked with jewels. Hastings, who wears oriental dress with a jewelled turban, has overturned his chair; on its back are the initials 'W H.' Two Indian servants (right) stand behind Hastings. In the centre of the wall, behind the lady, are shelves on which are money-bags, some inscribed 'Rupees' and 'Pagod[as]', jewels, and a large turban inscribed 'Cheyt Syng'. 9 May 1788
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Chait Singh, Raja of Benares | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1788 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.5695 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A generalized attack on Hastings relating to the first or Benares charge of the impeachment. The rope round the raja's neck suggests that he has been confused with Nandakumar, cf. BMSat 7265. For Chait Singh see BMSat 6277. For the trial see BMSat 7269, &c. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5695 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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