album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.11.4
- Title
- Series: Indian Drawings
- Description
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Two elephants fighting; single-page tinted drawing mounted in an album. A small circular vignette illustrates two elephants fights, mounted by riders and surrounded by men attempting to halt the fight. Image bordered by concentric rectangular lines. Inscribed. 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 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)
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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
- 1920,0917,0.11.4