Capturing elephants on Ceylon

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Capturing elephants on Ceylon

Anoniem / Anonymous / Waasbergen, Johannes Janssonius

Capturing elephants on Ceylon.

Olyfanten vangst op Ceylon.

The elephants were captured for use as work animals or to be sold on to Indian buyers.

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Creator

Anoniem / Anonymous (engraver / etcher)

Waasbergen, Johannes Janssonius (publisher)

Period

ca. 1672

Material

paper

Technique

copperplate printing

Kind

print

Dimension

30,5 x 35,5 cm30,5 x 35,5 cm

Number

189 A 6 deel II, na p. 198

Owner

Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Tags

survey / view, fauna, flora, building, Person, Asians, Africans & Americans, European, fence / kraal

Inscription

Olyfanten vangst op Ceylon

Sources and literature

Baldaeus, Philippus, Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel: Derzelver aangrenzende Ryken, en het machtige Eyland Ceylon (1672)