Decoy Elephants Leaving the Male Fastened to a Tree

Pattern Category: Indian Sporting

Biblographic References:

Oriental Field Sports by Thomas Williamson (author) and Samuel Howitt (artist), published in 1807 by Edward Orme, London

Description:

This "elephant folio" size aquatint, plate 10 in Oriental Field Sports, was the source for the printed pattern on the base of a covered vegetable dish.

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