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One of fifty Burmese drawings.

Painting
ca.1887 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Burma (made)

'Carian people who live close to Taown'. One of 50 drawings with manuscript notes in a book in European form - probably commissioned by a European. Drawings of royal elephants and horses, and types of people. lst page is missing and first part of text missing on how to control elephants. The book retains last portion only. Each elephant is marked with letters from the Burmese alphabet. These are intended to be used with the accompanying text which instructs where the elephant should be hit or prodded to perform certain movements.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Painting
TitleOne of fifty Burmese drawings. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Tempera colours on paper. Book bound half morocco
Gouache
Paper
Brief description
Painting; gouache, Burma, ca.1887
Physical description
'Carian people who live close to Taown'. One of 50 drawings with manuscript notes in a book in European form - probably commissioned by a European. Drawings of royal elephants and horses, and types of people. lst page is missing and first part of text missing on how to control elephants. The book retains last portion only. Each elephant is marked with letters from the Burmese alphabet. These are intended to be used with the accompanying text which instructs where the elephant should be hit or prodded to perform certain movements.
Dimensions
  • Gouache length: 30.5cm
  • Gouache width: 20cm
Style
Company
Marks and inscriptions
'Karen' (Inscribed:)
Object history
These comments were made by visitors, Head of Library and Head of History, from Rangoon University, Burma, September 1988.
The accompanying text is translated and can be found in the blue Parabaik (1) file in the Asian Department.
Bibliographic references
  • IS 29-1974 "Elephant Taming" painting on cloth Captain Yule "Mission to the Court of Ava" 1855, pp.103 etc. (describes elephant spectacles at Mandalay Court). Mildred Archer: "Company Paintings" 1992, pp 183-184.
  • Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 183 p. ISBN 0944142303
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
D.564-1901

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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