Taming Collection

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: taming a wild elephant, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: taming a wild elephant, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: herd of wild elephants, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: herd of wild elephants, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: testing the rope, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: testing the rope, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant kraal, with the "grand stand"..., 1864
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant kraal, with the "grand stand" for the English visitors, 1864

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: the alarm, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: the alarm, 1864. Engraving of a photograph '...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford the utmost

Single Leaf of Elephants on a River Bank, late 10th century AH/AD 16th-early 11th century AH... Creator: Unknown
Single Leaf of Elephants on a River Bank, late 10th century AH/AD 16th-early 11th century AH/AD 17th century. This Mughal painting depicts elephants on the bank of a river in a rocky landscape with a

Taming of the Elephant Chanchal, 1760. Creator: Unknown
Taming of the Elephant Chanchal, 1760

Plato as a Musician, c1600; border- 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Plato as a Musician, c1600; border- 19th century

Theseus Taming the Bull of Marathon, c1730 (?). Creator: Carle van Loo
Theseus Taming the Bull of Marathon, c1730 (?)

Asavari Ragini, the Fourth Wife of Shri Raga, Folio from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies), c1790. Creator: Unknown
Asavari Ragini, the Fourth Wife of Shri Raga, Folio from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies), c1790

Asavari Ragini, the Fourth Wife of Shri Raga, Folio from a Ragamala... 1700 or earlier. Creator: Unknown
Asavari Ragini, the Fourth Wife of Shri Raga, Folio from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies), 1700 or earlier

Taming an elephant, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Taming an elephant, 1785. Pen or stable built of bamboo framework in which three elephants are tied up. Singalese men pull on ropes. The middle elephant is doused with water. With inscription. No

Bird's eye view of elephant corral, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Bird's eye view of elephant corral, 1785. Huge trap and all the fences in which elephants were caught. No. 1 in the series about the elephant catch. With inscription

Wild elephant bound between trees, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Wild elephant bound between trees, 1785. Indian elephant tied with ropes to two trees and a Singalese with spear. With inscription. Part of Jan Brandes sketchbook, dl. 2 (1808), p. 141

Restraining a Wild Elephant, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
Restraining a Wild Elephant, 1785

A Bound Elephant being led from the Last Section of the trap, the Prison Corral, 1785. Creator: Jan Brandes
A Bound Elephant being led from the Last Section of the trap, the Prison Corral, 1785

Landscape with the Taming of a Horse, 1620/1630. Creator: Guercino
Landscape with the Taming of a Horse, 1620/1630

Christ as Apollo or Orpheus with his lyre taming the animals, 4th century. Greek Byzantine scuplture, at Byzantium Museum, Athens

E - An Alphabet by Hans Weiditz, c1520-1521, (1908). Creator: Hans Weiditz
E - An Alphabet by Hans Weiditz, c1520-1521, (1908). After designs by Durer.. From " The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Volume 12 - October 1907 to March 1908"

The Pacification of the Indians, 1914. Col. Rondon trying on shirts in the far interior of Brazil. From The Beautiful Rio De Janeiro by Alured Gray Bell. [William Heinemann, London, 1914]

Miracles: the legend of the Wolf of Gubbio, c1437-1444 (1956). According to legend, a wolf terrorised the Italian city of Gubbio until it was tamed by St Francis of Assisi

Mosaic of Orpheus Taming the Animals, 2nd-3rd century. Bardo Museum, Tunisia

A woman in profile pulling back on a rope tied around the horns of a young bull, ca. 1660

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