A Wild Elephant Trumpeting, or A Scene from Paradise Lost! ________"the unwieldy elephant "To make them mirth used all his might, and wreathed "His lithe proboscis." Par.e Lost. Bk.4.
HB Sketches. No.284. HB [monogram in bottom left corner.]
Published, Decr. 28th, 1844, by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket. Printed at 70, St. Martin's Lane.
Lithograph with "HB Subsribers copy" blindstamp. 304 x 444mm. 12 x 17½".
An elephant in the woodland, with the face of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871). The elephant looks towards two men seated underneath a tree, the one on the left is Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850). A snake coiled round the tree watches the elephant.
BM: 1868,0808.12157.
[Ref: 16109] £95.00
Published, Decr. 28th, 1844, by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket. Printed at 70, St. Martin's Lane.
Lithograph with "HB Subsribers copy" blindstamp. 304 x 444mm. 12 x 17½".
An elephant in the woodland, with the face of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871). The elephant looks towards two men seated underneath a tree, the one on the left is Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850). A snake coiled round the tree watches the elephant.
BM: 1868,0808.12157.
[Ref: 16109] £95.00