William Simpson, 1823–1899, British, Elephant Battery, 1864
- Title:
Elephant Battery
- Date:
- 1864
- Medium:
- Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, cream, slightly textured wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 1/4 inches (27 x 36.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower left: "Elephant Battery"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower right: "Wm Simpson. 1864"
Signed and dated lower right: "Wm Simpson. | 1864"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.264
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | batteries | cannons | conflict | elephants (animals) | historical subject | soldiers
- Associated Places:
- India
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12229
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Scott Wilcox, British watercolors, drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 71, pl. 71, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)
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