Title

Wild elephant bound between trees, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes.

Caption

Wild elephant bound between trees, 1785. Indian elephant tied with ropes to two trees and a Singalese with spear. With inscription. Part of Jan Brandes' sketchbook, dl. 2 (1808), p. 141.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A88_059

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

42,2Mb (2,4Mb) / 11,3in x 14,5in / 3388 x 4356 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature Europe animal wildlife tree people male man men Asian Asia plant plants arts country body bodies trunk art guy continent museum Netherlands Dutch feet foot Sri Lanka color elephant Indian elephant tusks tusk trapped captive rope captivity text location century drawing handwriting domesticated position concept restriction wild animal one person taming Asian elephant tied up between lettering sketch watercolour South Asia restricted sketches Colour sketchbook 18th century Eighteenth Century trees Rijksmuseum Sinhalese Sri Lankan TGN the body pencil drawing watercolour portrait pencil Singhalese paper Heritage Art Drawing sketch-book Low Countries watercolour (paint) Jan Brandes Brandes Jan Brandes Johan Johan Brandes