Cleveland Museum of Art
Elephant Battery, Jhansi
Raja Deen DayalLinkedCulture matchlcp-900fe823d6cd
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- India
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 290407
Exercises involving elephant batteries, which were exotic to European eyes, attracted spectators; photographs of them were excellent souvenirs of these military forces employed by the British Indian Army. Elephants had been employed in warfare in India since at least the 500s BC, but with the advent of heavy artillery, their function switched from attack to support. They transported big guns and supplies and worked in logging and construction. It took many cattle to pull a load that could be handled by two elephants.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- 1887 or 1888: Studio of Raja Deen Dayal, sold to commissioner (identity unknown) | 1970s–2015: Walter Clode [1929–2022], Pershore, England, sold or consigned to Prahlad Bubbar Indian and Islamic Art, London, England | 2015–16: (Prahlad Bubbar Indian and Islamic Art, London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | December 5, 2016–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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