The State Entry: A Distinguished Maharaja

Mortimer Menpes

1903

Watercolor

Source: The Durbar, facing p. 94

“One of the elephants, who by its amazing revelation of splendour, struck all Delhi dumb with wonder.”

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Related material

• Menpes’s paintings of elephants at the Durbar

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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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