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Elephants pushing cannons drawn by bullocks

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  • Description

    This powerful fragmentary drawing of artillery on the move may have been a study for wall-paintings showing an army on the march. The large carriage-mounted cannons are drawn by bullock teams and pushed from behind by the royal elephants. Master gunners, mainly European mercenaries, sit on each cannon giving directions. Elephants were widely used for extreme lifting and pushing, and heaving the artillery along was all in their day’s work.

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Kota (place of creation)
    Date
    mid-18th century
    Material and technique
    brush drawing with colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 156.4 x 154.1 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
    mount 135 x 131 cm (height x width)
    painting 134.8 x 134.4 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing,
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.60

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 108 on p. 250, p. 20, illus. p. 252

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