TWO ELEPHANTS ATTACKED BY SNAKES North India, 18th - 19th century Tinted drawing, opaque and transparent pigments and black ink on paper, each painting with an elephant in the centre of the composition being attacked by several snakes, the elephants' skin realistically painted using stippling effect with grey, brown and pink pigments, each within black rules and set in red borders, covered by a thin sheet of acid-free paper, the back stamped with an undeciphered quote in Urdu added at a later stage, each 15.1cm x 13.4cm. Provenance: UK private collection purchased in the UK market in 1970s.