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Enraged elephant

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  • Description

    Male elephants periodically become frenzied during their mast (‘drunken, intoxicated’) season, marked by a discharge from glands in the temples and by aggressive behaviour. Wild-eyed and enraged, this elephant tears at his tethering chains while his mahout and keepers struggle to control him. The surging contours and dense modelling of this elephant show a debt to the master of the previous painting of elephants fighting [LI118.62].

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Kota (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1690
    Material and technique
    brush drawing with gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 37.5 x 51.5 x 1.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 24 x 38 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.45

  • 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. 81 on p. 194, pp. 19, 70, 184, 196, & 200, illus. p. 195

Past Exhibitions

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Location

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