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Elephant pen near Jaele, eight kilometres northeast of Negombo

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Elephant pen near Jaele, eight kilometres northeast of Negombo

Brandes, Jan

Elephant corral near Jaele, eight kilometres northeast of Negombo.

In this corral elephants were rounded up every seven years and held captive. At the time Jan Brandes visited this corral 25 elephants were being held there.

This drawing is one in a series of 13 drawings taking the elephant corral as its subject.

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Sources and literature

Bruijn, M. de en R. Raben, The world of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: Drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa (2004)