Van der Schley, Exécution par un elephant, 1750. Drawings significantly modernizing the Spanish Navy

significantly modernizing the Spanish Navy

and students of textile production

whose work often emulated Prout's

During the revolt

Van der Schley, Exécution par un elephant, 1750. Drawings significantly modernizing the Spanish NavyCrushing by elephant and other executions on Sri Lanka Jakob van der Schley (1715 1779). 1. Excution par un elephant; 2. Autres supllices. [The Hague, 1750]. Graphite and ink drawing on slightly blue paper. Mounted on paper support with gilt border. 17,5 x 12,5 cm. (drawing); 24 x 18,5 cm. (mounting). Preparatory drawing by Jakob van der Schley for his famous print depicting execution methods that were supposedly used on Sri Lanka: crushing by a