Lot Essay
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Washing Elephants; The Elephant Gun; Shooting tigers from a Michaun; Sepoy Mutineers blown from guns; and Attack of vultures on the body of a burning Hindu
Details
English School, c. 1858
Washing Elephants; The Elephant Gun; Shooting tigers from a Michaun; Sepoy Mutineers blown from guns; and Attack of vultures on the body of a burning Hindu
each inscribed as titled
the first and fifth pencil and grey wash heightened with white and red on paper; the second pencil and grey wash heightened with white on paper; the third pencil and grey wash with scratching out on paper; the four pencil and grey wash on paper;
8 ½ x 13 ¼ in. (21.6 x 32.4 cm.); and smaller
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Washing Elephants; The Elephant Gun; Shooting tigers from a Michaun; Sepoy Mutineers blown from guns; and Attack of vultures on the body of a burning Hindu
each inscribed as titled
the first and fifth pencil and grey wash heightened with white and red on paper; the second pencil and grey wash heightened with white on paper; the third pencil and grey wash with scratching out on paper; the four pencil and grey wash on paper;
8 ½ x 13 ¼ in. (21.6 x 32.4 cm.); and smaller
(5)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 November 1989, lots 106 C, F and G.
Literature
(i), (ii)The Illustrated London News, 1 May 1858.