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    Image number: RS.10609
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    Indian elephant

    Date
    1669
    Creator
    Andreas Lorenzen Rothgiesser (German) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    57159
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 294mm
    width (print): 188mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > elephant
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Zoological study of an Indian elephant and human rider, the latter bearing the book half-title held on a banner made of the pelt of a lion. The elephant is depicted standing in a forest of palms.

    Frontispiece plate to the book Orientalische Reise-Beschreibunge Jurgen Andersen aus Schlesswig der An. Christi 1644, aussgezogen und 1650 wieder kommen, und Volquard Iversen aus Holstein...edited by Adam Olearius (Schlesswig, 1669). The plate is inscribed lower right: ‘And.Rothgiesser f...’ [partly lost].

    Adam Olearius (1599-1671) [Adam Ölschläger or sometimes Oehlschlaeger] was a German scholar, traveller and librarian.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > India
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