“Lord and Lady Curzon Entering Delhi” by Mortimer Menpes, R. I.

Lord and Lady Curzon Entering Delhi

Mortimer Menpes

1903

Watercolor

Source: The Durbar, facing p. 44

“This elephant was used by Lord Lytton at the previoous Durbar.”

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“One felt a thrill of patriotism as a magnificent elephant towering high above all the rest came into view, the handsomest and finest of all, at sight of which thousands of voices as though from one throat murmured, ‘The Viceroy’

“Every hat was raised, every turbaned head bent low, before that youthful, joyous figure under the glittering golden umbrella. One felt that no other Englishman could have carried himself better or have fitted into that magnificent picture more perfectly than Lord Curzon. He was the right man in the right place. His elephant, you felt, was an animal created for regal processions, for carrying the representatives of kings slow, massive, majestic. The huge beast seemed conscious of his success” [44].

Bibliography

Menpes, Mortimer. The Durbar. Text by Dorothy Menpes. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California at Los Angeles Library. Web. 27 May 2017.

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