- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2009.202.156
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Frontal View of an Elephant Chasing a Horseman
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/217277
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ink and opaque watercolor on paper; Rajput Style
- Dimensions
- 21.2 x 14.6 cm (8 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.)
- Provenance
- Stuart Cary Welch (by 1973 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.
Notes:
Object was part of temporary loan to Museum in 1973. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
- Accession Year
- 2009
- Object Number
- 2009.202.156
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- The page features a large elephant, viewed from the front, charging at a male figure on horseback. Sitting on top of the elephant is the elephant driver (mahout). He wears a large, white turban; a long, yellow robe (jama), and a green waist sash (patka). He holds up, with both hands, a large elephant goad (ankus). The elephant’s gray eyes are fixated on the horseman and its trunk wraps around his waist. The rider turns back to stab the elephant in the trunk with a punch dagger (katar). The rider wears a yellow turban and a green robe. The intensity of the scene is heightened by the swinging bells that adorn the elephant, the horse’s full gallop, and the rider’s unraveling turban. Rajput Style.
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