Victoria and Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour: Laing Art Gallery [Newcastle]

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JOSEPH NASH (1809-78)

The Great Exhibition: India No.4

c. 1851

Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour | 33.0 x 48.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 919942

The howdah (a seat for riding on the back of an elephant) displayed on the stuffed elephant in this scene was loaned to the exhibition by the Queen, who had received it as a gift from the Nawab Nazim of Bengal.
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