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Title: Asiatic elephant
Creator: L. Prang & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1873
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a side view of an Asiatic (or Asian) elephant; image of elephant skull inset at bottom right.
"Entered according to act of congress in the year 1873, by L. Prang & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."--text, bottom center of image. "Thick skinned Ouadrupeds. Family.-Elephants. (Elephantidae.) Elephas indicus cuv. Height 8 to 11 feet. Southern Asia."--text, bottom margin. "EK"--text, artist's initials, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 26.67 x 33.66 cm (10 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002215
413260
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3523
Language: English
Subject: Animals--Pictorial works
Elephants--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Louis Prang Archive
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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