Sujet
'The Elephant', c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Légende
'The Elephant', c1850. The central image shows the Indian elephant in front and African elephant behind. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): shooting tiger from a howdah mounted on an Indian elephant; Indian elephants in a state procession; Indian elephants carrying people and baggage; Africans cooking elephant meat; turning ivory items on a lathe; hunting elephants in Africa for ivory and meat; Indian war elephant carrying archers in a howdah; Indian elephant used by the British army in India to help transport guns. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1850
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B66_288
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
49,9Mo (2,9Mo) / 38,2cm x 32,8cm / 4510 x 3870 (300dpi)