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Reference (shelfmark):: WD1767
Title:: Part of the elephant frieze over the doorway at the Barabar caves. 1790.. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840), and Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:: Part of the elephant frieze over the doorway at the Barabar caves. 1790. Pencil; 22 by 19 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1790
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD1816-1859
Title:: 44 drawings of animals: horses, camels, elephants, shawl-goats, bullocks, waterbuffaloes, two-headed calf, bears, monkeys, nilgai, sambar, pangolin and sea-spider, made in India or on voyages between 1785 and 1793. Artist(s): Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840
Scope & Content:: 44 drawings of animals: horses, camels, elephants, shawl-goats, bullocks, water-buffaloes, two-headed calf, bears, monkeys, nilgai, sambar, pangolin and sea-spider, made in India or on voyages between 1785 and 1793. Pencil, pen-and-ink, and wash; various sizes. Purchased 9 May 1962. Note: WD1...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1785-1793
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD2096
Title:: Capturing elephants in Ceylon. c.1825. Military officers supervising the rounding up of elephants
Scope & Content:: Capturing elephants in Ceylon. c.1825. Military officers supervising the rounding up of elephants. A group of officers are seated in a ‘machan’. Below stands a headman or local landlord with attendants carrying palm-leaf fans, the insignia of his status. Villagers and military officers s...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1825
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD2422
Title:: The Nawab's Palace, Lucknow (U.P.). River scene with palace on further bank; elephant and group of figures on river bank in foreground. Artist(s): Longcroft, Thomas (c. 1760-1811)
Scope & Content:: The Nawab's Palace, Lucknow (U.P.). River scene with palace on further bank; elephant and group of figures on river bank in foreground. c.1798. Inscribed (probably by Miss Twining): ‘by Thomas Longcroft, about 1790.’ Wash; 11 by 24 ins. Foster Catalogue, no.341.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1798
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3261
Title:: State elephant, Baroda. Artist(s): North, Marianne (1830-1890)
Scope & Content:: State elephant, Baroda. 46.5 by 34 cm. Note: ‘Recollections’, II, p.76.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1879
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3454
Title:: Kneeling elephant with howdah. Artist(s): Abbott, Sir James (1807-1896)
Scope & Content:: Kneeling elephant with howdah. ‘Moolla Buksh. The Elephant from the back of which I laid down the Boundary Line, between the Territories of Great Britain, Lahore ie. Sikh State and Jumboo. He was captured from me, during the Sikh War but re-taken. J. Abbott’. Pencil and ink; 23 by 33 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1826-1867
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3715
Title:: Desert scene at sunrise with a carriage drawn by six camels, other camels and elephant in the background and in the foreground a group of Punjabis with an ekka and tethered horse
Scope & Content:: Desert scene at sunrise with a carriage drawn by six camels, other camels and elephant in the background and in the foreground a group of Punjabis with an ‘ekka’ and tethered horse. 1883. Inscribed: ‘A.H. 1883’. Water-colour; 25.2 by 35.3 cm. Presented by Mrs. N.B. Dunlop and Miss J. Dunlop...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1883
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3725
Title:: Surrounding a wounded elephant. Artist(s): Carpenter, Percy (1820-1895)
Scope & Content:: Surrounding a wounded elephant. Inscribed: ‘P. Carpenter June 1859’. Pencil heightened with white; 36 by 52 cm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1859
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3823
Title:: Ceremonial elephants surrounded by a group of people including servants, soldiers and women and children, Travancore. Artist(s): Saltuikov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, Prince (1806-1859)
Scope & Content:: Ceremonial elephants surrounded by a group of people including servants, soldiers and women and children, Travancore, 1841. Pencil, chalk and pen and ink; 26.5 by 37.3 cm. Note: Original drawing for ‘Elephants du Raja de Travancor. Trivandrum. Mai 1841’ in ‘Voyage dans L’Inde’, Paris, 1848.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1841
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD3956
Title:: Landscape with elephants, camels and horsemen on the banks of the Mutha river. Artist(s): Mabon, Robert (fl. 1791-1798)
Scope & Content:: Landscape with elephants, camels and horsemen on the banks of the Mutha river. Inscribed: ‘View near the Assungum with the Ford over the Moola Moota, the figures drawn by R. Mabon’ and on reverse: ‘A view of the English Residence at the Sungum or Conflux of the Rivers Moota & Moola near Poo...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1793
Extent:: 1 Item

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