Elephant ascending rocky ground; an Indian gentleman with gun standing in the howdah
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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.
A European in a howdah on an elephant next to a rest-house.
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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.
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...
An elephant gorgeously caparisoned bearing a howdah with a state chair, with a mahout.
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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.
A caparisoned and mahouted elephant with a closed howdah, the top of a chair just being visible
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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.
Kneeling elephant with howdah. Artist(s): Abbott, Sir James (1807-1896)
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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.