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Walters Ms. W.715, Single leaf of elephant combat

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Shelf mark

W.715


Manuscript

Single leaf of elephant combat


Text title
Elephant combat

Abstract

This single-leaf painting of elephants in combat was executed in India during the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE in an archaizing style referencing Mughal traditions of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The image of the mounted mahout, a person who drives an elephant, reproduces a popular theme in court painting in South Asia.


Date

13th century AH / 19th CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

30.0 cm wide by 21.5 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 27.5 cm wide by 20.0 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.715a - W.715b:
  1. Title: Elephant combat
  2. Decoration note: Salmon border with illuminated motifs and blue border, both trimmed

Decoration:

fol. W.715a:

  1. W.715, fol. W.715a
  2. Title: Elephant combat
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Label: This single-leaf painting of elephants in combat was executed in India during the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE in an archaizing style referencing Mughal traditions of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The image of the mounted mahout, a person who drives an elephant, reproduces a popular theme in court painting in South Asia.

fol. W.715b:

  1. W.715, fol. W.715b
  2. Title: Elephant combat (back)
  3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.