John Dunlop (1823 - 1867)

John Dunlop

John Dunlop was a British physician and artist.

As Assistant Surgeon of His Majesty's 32nd Regiment, John Dunlop participated in and witnessed the Siege of Multan, Pakistan, a five-month standoff between the city and state of Multan and British East India Company troops in 1848. He made numerous sketches from the scene. Based on his drawings, a work entitled Multan during and after the siege was published. It included 21 drawings by John Dunlop, lithographed by Andrew Maclure, with a descriptive and historical account of the siege.

The siege lasted from April 19, 1848, when a rebellion in the city against a ruler imposed by the East India Company led to the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, until January 22, 1849, when the last defenders surrendered.