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Elephants fighting
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Description
Elephant fights were a popular court entertainment in Mughal times. Here a tussle between elephants is becoming lively, as the mahouts urge their beasts on or hang on grimly to the harness ropes. Unusually this painting is ascribed to a woman artist, Khurshid Banu. Several ladies of the Mughal imperial household are known to have been skilled painters.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north India (place of creation)
- Date
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c. 1600
Mughal Period (1526 - 1858)
- Artist/maker
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Khurshid Banu (active c. 1600) (artist)
- Material and technique
- gouache with gold on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 33.6 x 38.9 x 2.1 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 22.5 x 27.7 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.97
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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. 11 on p. 44, p. 21, illus. p. 45
Past Exhibitions
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Location
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