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# Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805)

Governor-General of India,1785-93 and again for a short period of 1805. Head and shoulder. Clean-shaved face. Wig on the head. Dressed in ancient Roman style with tunic and drapery, the later attached to the tunic on the right shoulder by a circular brooch. Face looking slightly to spectator's left.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vmh.c421](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vmh.c421) · Pramāṇa
