TileWeb: Devon (DD605B)

	TileWeb: Paving-tile Watercolours Online	The Collections: •Parker-Hore
	The Parker-Hore Archive Collection of Watercolours of Paving-tiles
	held in Worcester and in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

First

Last

Detail Page

594 of 2854

County:	Devon	Click on Image to see original watercolour
Town/Village:	Dunkeswell
Place Details:	Abbey
Artist and Date:
Iconography:	Animal and bird
Copied from (Collection):
Watercolour Ref. No.:	DD605B
Notebook: FMP
Portfolio: Jas P,
Notebook: IH	2
Other details:	Enlarged Jas Parker. Chambers Encyclopadea: Elephants first became known in Europe from its employment in the wars of the east `in India from the remostest antiquity, it formed one of the most picturesque, if not of the most effective, features in the armies of the native princes. Elephants have been taught to cut and thrust with a kind of similar carried in the trunk and it was formerly usual for them to be sent into battle, covered with armour and bearing towers on ther backs which contained warriors. Elephants will live for a hundred years; some to almost two hundred. An order of the elephant was instituted in Denmark by King Frederick II (1559-1588). The badge was a collar of elephants towered having at the end the picture of the Virgin Mary.

First

Last

© Copyright of this digital resource will be held jointly by
the Ashmolean Museum, Worcester City Museum & Art Gallery and by the Worcestershire Archaeological Society.
Copyright of the original drawings is held by
the Ashmolean Museum and by the Worcestershire Archaeological Society respectively.

None of this material may be reproduced in any form without permission.