The Last Effort of Tippoo Sultaun in Defence of the Fortress of Seringapatam - The Storming of Seringapatam - The Glorious Conquest of Seringapatam (triptych)

Porter turned the storming of Srirangapatna from something that a British audience could read about in a newspaper, to an event they felt they could witness. He successfully brought the event to the streets of London while himself relying on accounts of the attack written by two officers who had taken part, the surveyor Captain Alexander Allan who was the official cartographer of the campaign, and Captain Alexander Beatson, its official historian. The original painting from which this print was made measured over 120 feet long.One contemporary observer described it as ‘all fire, intelligence and animation’. The print remains the best known depiction of the fall of Srirangapatna.