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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.