print
- Museum number
- 1919,1216.94
- Title
- Series: Animal copybook
- Description
-
Three views of an Asian elephant (? Don Diego); at the top, the elephant is shown from behind and front, with fruits scattered about; at the bottom, the elephant is shown from the side, with fruits and vegetables scattered about; after Roelandt Savery
Engraving
- Production date
- 1634 (c.)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 288 millimetres
-
Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- For information on the volume see 1919,1216.59.
For information on the series see 1919,1216,89.
For Don Diego, a much travelled Indian elephant, who was shipped to Portugal in the early 1620s and subsequently was seen in Spain, England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, Austria and Italy, see L. Rice, 'Poussin's Elephant', "Renaissance Quarterly", LXX, 2017, pp. 548-93. Savery would have seen Don Diego (his name given to him in England from his having been given to King James I by Philip IV in 1623 as part of the aborted Spanish Match of Charles) in Utrecht in 1628.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,1216.94