Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match [SEP] creator
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match, sometimes called Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Fight, is a painting by Johann Zoffany. The painting records British colonial life in the Indian court of Asaf-Ud-Dowlah. The painting is part of the Tate Gallery collection. The painting was completed in February 1788, four years after the event it records. A recent cleaning has revealed the original colours and the arousal of the central figure.
History.
Johann Zoffany was a German-born painter who had
c. 1681–1710)
- John Mordaunt (British Army officer) (1697–1780), English general and Member of Parliament
- John Mordaunt (MP) (c. 1709–1767), British soldier and Member of Parliament
- Sir John Mordaunt, 7th Baronet (1734–1806)
- Sir John Mordaunt, 9th Baronet (1808–1845)
- Colonel John Mordaunt, in Lucknow and the subject of Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match