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11. Add Or 2489

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 2489
Title:
Elephant with howdah.
Scope & Content:
Elephant with howdah.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

12. Add Or 3986

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3986
Title:
Elephant climbing rocky hillside; an Indian gentleman firing a gun from the howdah
Scope & Content:
Elephant climbing rocky hillside; an Indian gentleman firing a gun from the howdah. In front of him a seated mahout, behind him a standing attendant.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

13. Add Or 3987

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3987
Title:
Elephant ascending rocky ground; an Indian gentleman with gun standing in the howdah
Scope & Content:
Elephant ascending rocky ground; an Indian gentleman with gun standing in the howdah; an attendant seated behind him, a second attendant standing on the elephant’s hind-quarters.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1830
Extent:
1 Item

14. Add Or 4232

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4232
Title:
An elephant with howdah.
Scope & Content:
An elephant with howdah. 160 by 184 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1807-1810
Extent:
1 Item

15. Add Or 4258

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4258
Title:
A European in a howdah on an elephant next to a rest-house.
Scope & Content:
A European in a howdah on an elephant next to a rest-house. Inscribed on opposite page: ‘The Howder. A Choultry - an Edifice for humane purposes erected for the Traveller’. Water-colour; 105 by 180 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 Item

16. Add Or 4388

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 4388
Title:
A design for an elephant howdah
Scope & Content:
A design for an elephant howdah. By a Kotah artist, c.1850. Inscribed in nagari: ‘ani praman hodo huvoh’ (‘front view(?) of an howdah’). Water-colour and body-colour; 117 by 186 mm. Purchased 1987. Note: The design seems fanciful, in the excess of its curls and swags and sleigh-like frontal...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

17. Add Or 5004

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5004
Title:
An elephant gorgeously caparisoned bearing a howdah with a state chair, with a mahout.
Scope & Content:
An elephant gorgeously caparisoned bearing a howdah with a state chair, with a mahout. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Water-colour and body-colour; 495 by 390 mm. Note: This and Add.Or.5010 below seem related to the caparisoned elephants drawn for Steuart & Co, Add.Or.535-7.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

18. Add Or 5010

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5010
Title:
A caparisoned and mahouted elephant with a closed howdah, the top of a chair just being visible
Scope & Content:
A caparison and mahouted elephant with a closed howdah, the top of a chair just being visible. By a Calcutta artist, c.1820. Water-colour and body-colour; 502 by 433 mm. Note: see note under Add.Or.5004 above.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1820
Extent:
1 Item

19. WD1050

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1050
Title:
An Englishman riding in the howdah of a state elephant. Artist(s): Yule, Sir Henry (1820-1889)
Scope & Content:
An Englishman riding in the howdah of a state elephant. Pencil and water-colour; 8.5 by 11 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840-1862
Extent:
1 Item

20. WD3454

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