Clive Of India, Robert Lord Clive Baron Plassey Antique Mezzotint, retailer Circa 1750

CLIVE OF INDIA MEZZO TINT

Rare Antique print in excellent condition c1750

Robert Lord Clive, Baron Plassey, Major General in the retailer East Indies, Governor of Bengal, and Commander in Chief of the East India Company's Forces.

Printed for John Bowles in Cornhill, Robert Sayer in Fleet Street, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Churchyard. [n.d., c.1750.]

Size 14 .5 inches x 10 inches (36 cm x 25.5 cm)

Very good condition.

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB MP FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, Commander-in-Chief of British India, was a British officer and soldier of fortune who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key early figures in the creation of British India. He also sat for two boroughs as a Tory Member of Parliament in Great Britain.