Thursday, July 8, 2010

Éléphants du Radja de Travancor, Trivandrum. Mai 1841--Lithographer: Rudder, L.H. de (1807-1881) Medium: Lithograph Date: 1848


ithograph of the Raja of Tranvancore's elephants at Trivandrum in Kerala by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after an original drawing of May 1841 by Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Saltuikov published in 1848. Prince Saltuikov visited Trivandrum in August 1841 and noted several details about his meeting with the Hindu Maharaja of Travancore. He wrote that the Raja received his guest on his throne, was not more than 25 or 27 years of age and gave his guest two Indian drawings.











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