An elephant with a howdah
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
This Company Painting is from a series of 40 illustrating modes of transport, occupations, entertainers, ascetics and Muharram subjects. (Company Paintings were so-called because they were made by Indian artists for the British in India.) Paintings on mica (talc) were produced in Murshidabad, Patna and Varanasi (Benares) in eastern India and in Tiruchirapalli (Trichinopoly) in the south. Indian artists had long used the material for preserving tracings of their family paintings. But sets of pictures depicting occupations, ceremonies, vehicles and so forth were made exclusively for European patrons.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- IS.20:32-1956
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 10 days ago
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
