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Elephant eating a tree

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  • Description

    A royal elephant enjoying a respite from its state duties takes its leafy lunch from a convenient tree. The bearded mahout directs the improvised meal with shouts of command and the touch of his ankus. Freely sketched with a sparing use of colour and wash, this composition derives from earlier Deccani and Mughal models.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › north-west India › Jammu and Kashmir › Mankot (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1700
    Material and technique
    brush drawing with colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 48.5 x 48.5 x 1.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 38 x 38 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting,
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.59

  • 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. 66 on p. 156, illus. p. 157

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