album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.11.3
- Title
- Series: Indian Drawings
- Description
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Fight with horse and elephant; single-page tinted drawing mounted in an album. A small circular vignette illustrates an armed warrior mounted on horseback engaged in combat with three warriors mounted on an elephant. Figure on horseback carries a spear and shield and attacks while horse is reared. One figure on elephant shoots a bow and arrow. Album contains 60 Indian drawings and paintings.
Ink and wash on paper. Album bound in black leather with pages of European paper, watermarked 1799.
- Production date
- 18thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 7.60 centimetres (drawing)
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Height: 34 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 32.70 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 2.90 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 22 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 19.60 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1920,0917,0.11.1-.62 for all folios included in this album.
See 1920,0917,0.11.1 for spine and front matter inscriptions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1920,0917,0.11.3
