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Soldiers, camels and elephants gather around a gate to an Indian palace. Lithograph.
Reference: 16497i
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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.
Petrus CamperDate: [1787/1800?]Reference: 571087i
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Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26460i
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Prome, Burma, seen from a hill. Coloured aquatint by William Daniell after James Kershaw, c. 1831.
Kershaw, JamesDate: [1831]Reference: 29645i
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Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32743i
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Native Indians catching wild elephants by snaring their feet with ropes. Engraving by T Medland, ca 1800, after S Bey.
Bey, Singey.Date: 21 April 1800Reference: 39839i
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An elephant, part-dissected, seen from below: two figures, showing the muscles. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
Petrus CamperDate: [1787/1800?]Reference: 571071i
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Ganga on her transport led by a worshipper, with an upside down elephant in the river. Coloured transfer lithograph.
Reference: 26201i
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Head of an elephant. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: 1789?Reference: 29145i
Ephemera
Verdedig uw tanden : La défense de vos dents ... Arsident : Chloraspetine : antiseptique organique chloré, organisch amino-chloor-inhoudend bederfwerendmiddel / Laboratoires Optima.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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Cambodia: elephants outside Angkor Wat. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
John ThomsonDate: 1865Reference: 19222i
Books
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A practical memoir on the history and treatment of the diseases of the elephant, with instructions for preserving its efficiency... outline of its anatomy, also, an account of the medicines used...
Gilchrist, W.Date: 1841
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Elephants grazing in the forst.
Mandel, L.Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 536585i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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Dissection of the reproductive organs (?) of a male elephant: five figures. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
Petrus CamperDate: [1787/1800?]Reference: 571080i
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Ayuthia, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.
John ThomsonDate: 1981Reference: 19059i
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Girl acrobats forming the shape of an elephant at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 728123i
Part of: Indian practitioners of crafts, trades and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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Bones of an elephant: twelve figures showing details of bones. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, ca. 1787.
Petrus CamperDate: [1787/1800?]Reference: 571100i
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A ten-armed Parvati nursing Ganesha. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26155i
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Elephant skull, side view: three figures, including a tooth. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1785.
Petrus CamperDate: [1787/1800?]Reference: 571098i
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An elephant running wild with Lord Auckland in its trunk. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
John DoyleDate: February 1843Reference: 37124i
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A royal sage tells the father of the fishergirl of their marriage. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1907.
Raja Ravi VarmaDate: 1907Reference: 26654i
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A wealthy man, holding an umbrella, sitting on a howdah (seat) placed on the back of a rug-draped Indian elephant. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582758i
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A seventeenth-century wooden pharmacy counter carved in low relief, the central panel is of an elephant. Photograph.
Reference: 36623i
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Bacchus carried on a chariot pulled by leopards, accompanied by a drunken procession of bacchants and satyrs, with Silenus and two elephants. Etching by P. Aquila after P. Berrettini da Cortona, 16--.
Pietro da CortonaDate: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 26941i
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A fight between an elephant and a rhinoceros. Etching by M.E. Ridinger after J.E. Ridinger.
Johann Elias RidingerDate: 1700-1799Reference: 39290i