HOME, Robert.

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Select Views in Mysore, The Country of Tippoo Sultan; First edition of this topographical survey, sketched by the portrait painter Robert Home (1752-1834) as he accompanied the British army during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. The plates are accompanied by an account of the conflict and an abbreviated version of the text in Persian. Following the death of his wife, Home departed for Madras, where he arrived in early 1791. Granted permission to follow the grand army under Lord Cornwallis, he joined them as they laid siege to Bangalore (Bengaluru) and stayed with them for over a year. It was the beginning of a profitable career for Home with many portraits commissioned. His "style combined careful drawing with simplicity and dignity", and an "intimate knowledge of Indian topography" (ODNB). He went on to travel with the renowned artists Thomas and William Daniell and collected his drawings from his time in the war in Select Views in Mysore. Together with the work of the Daniells and a few other artists, Home's survey constitutes "some of the earliest views - though of a limited part - of south India by British artists" (Mahajan, p. 95).The fine binding is the work of German-born Charles Ernst Christian Hering, who, like many of his nationality, worked out of the West End. In 1794 he opened his shop in St Martin's Street and by the early 19th century had established himself as a pre-eminent craftsman. "As the artistic successor to Roger Payne, the doyen of English bookbinders, Her

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