A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.92

c20.s2.92

Perfectly drawn elephants are numerous. Indian artists, whether sculptors or painters, rarely failed to produce good representations of the huge quadruped, the nature of which they understood thoroughly. Volume lxvii in the Johnson Collection is specially devoted to elephants, several of which are admirable. One of the best is that on folio 7, by Nādir-uz-zamān (Abūl Hasan).¹ Another fine picture is that on folio 15. The main subject is a magnificent elephant standing in a palace court-yard, with other elephants, a bullock, &c., as accessories. The drawing is *grisaille* in a brownish sepia tint, no other colour being used, except that the golden ornaments of the elephant are yellow.