2-979-721 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Harbee Nawab and Attendants - Elephant Prince; Bullock Cart for Removing Luggage, 1857. 'The state of a native Prince, on his elephant, has been often described, and has been pretty well imitated in the spectacles at Astley's...The bullock-cart, for removing luggage, is an humbler kind of vehicle, and substantially built to enable it to stand the wear and tear of the abominable roads which too generally abound in this country'. Engraving '...copied from drawings by native artists, some on ivory, others on talc. They are in the possession of Messrs. Smith and Co., of Leadenhall-street, and are for sale. They are sixty in number, and are very curiously and elaborately painted...[They depict] a variety of characters and incidents in Indian native life...which will almost speak for themselves'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.