Auguste Borget, 1809–1877, FrenchFormerly attributed to Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Title:
Moonlit Scene of Indian Figures and Elephants among Banyan Trees, Upper India (probably Lucknow)
Date:
ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on Indian hardwood panel
Dimensions:
9 3/16 x 16 1/8 inches (23.3 x 41 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.250
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
water buffaloes | elephant (animal) | banyans | Indian | water | trees | landscape | figures
Associated Places:
Uttar Pradesh | Bharat | Lucknow | Asia
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)Imaginative Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-01 - 2006-08-18)
Publications:
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 34, no. 129, V2359 (YCBA)