Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Elephant Art #2


Scan11421, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Impressive looking tusker. I don't envy the artist who did all this detail on a very fidgitity subject.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

From Harper's Weekly, January 26, 1884, page 57. The author of the accompanying article termed the white elephant a "Chang Pouk," or "strange-colored elephant." It was part of the publicity attendant to the Barnum show importation of the beast.