“An Elephant and Retainers from Bikanir” by Mortimer Menpes, R. I.

An Elephant and Retainers from Bikanir

Mortimer Menpes

1903

Watercolor

Source: The Durbar, facing p. 112

“The jhool upon this elephant and the embroidery upon the velvet is worth a king’s ransom.”

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Elephants at the Durbar

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“One of the most beautiful elephants in Rajputana was in Bikanir. This animal bore shining silver scales that rattled as he walked. Then, there was that beautiful State chariot which I have talked of before the State chariot drawn by two bullocks bedecked in silver chain-work, as beautifully finished as a lady's purse, and adorned with innumerable tassels of old-rose and silver” (129).

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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