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Burma: a lady attended by a servant bringing an elephant and another servant holding a parasol. Watercolour.

A Buddhist master (?) enthroned on an elephant, being presented with a sword-like object by a man and woman. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.

Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.

An elephant walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Écorché head of an elephant: two figures showing the musculature of the head and face. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.

An Indian elephant (Elephas indicus). Coloured etching after F O Finch.

Tiger hunting in India: men riding elephants shoot at a tiger that tries to escape by swimming across a river. Watercolour, 18--.

Ganesha enthroned holding his symbols with his rat. Watercolour drawing.

Ayuthia, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.

An elephant with a blind man wearing glasses and holding a stick who prods the mammal in numerous places including hanging from its tusk; an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.

An elephant carrying a howdah, with two attendants. Gouache by an Indian artist.

An elephant killing an Indian criminal by stamping on his head; guards standing next to it. Wood engraving by A.F.  Pannemaker, 1875, after E. Bayard after L. Rousselet.

The Sarabha: a mythical creature connected with Shiva. Gouache drawing.

Four studies of elephants, including a side-view of an elephant with a bandaged leg, with details of the head, breasts and genital area. Etching with stipple, by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1770-1779.

A man of high rank sitting on an elaborate howdah (canopied seat) on top of an elephant, preceded by two guards. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

The public bath or Baollee, near Old Delhi, India. Wood engraving.

A goddess on a flowering plant holding a baby elephant, could either be Lakshmi or Parvati. Watercolour drawing.

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Elephants

Images from the collections

Images about Elephants

Works from the collections

The Sarabha: a mythical creature connected with Shiva. Gouache drawing.

Four studies of elephants, including a side-view of an elephant with a bandaged leg, with details of the head, breasts and genital area. Etching with stipple, by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1770-1779.

A man of high rank sitting on an elaborate howdah (canopied seat) on top of an elephant, preceded by two guards. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

The public bath or Baollee, near Old Delhi, India. Wood engraving.

A goddess on a flowering plant holding a baby elephant, could either be Lakshmi or Parvati. Watercolour drawing.

Elephants

Images from the collections

Images about Elephants

Works from the collections

The Sarabha: a mythical creature connected with Shiva. Gouache drawing.

Four studies of elephants, including a side-view of an elephant with a bandaged leg, with details of the head, breasts and genital area. Etching with stipple, by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1770-1779.

A man of high rank sitting on an elaborate howdah (canopied seat) on top of an elephant, preceded by two guards. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

The public bath or Baollee, near Old Delhi, India. Wood engraving.

A goddess on a flowering plant holding a baby elephant, could either be Lakshmi or Parvati. Watercolour drawing.

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