  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Elephants Bearing Torches
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1598 and 1599
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Andrea Andreani  (Artist)
  Italian, 1546-1623
  After Andrea Mantegna  (Artist)
  Italian, 1431-1506
  
  
  
  Medium
  Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in black ink and three shades of brown ink on laid paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Image: 14 1/4 &Atilde;&#151; 14 1/2 inches (36.2 &Atilde;&#151; 36.8 cm)
  Framed: 21 &Atilde;&#151; 52 1/2 &Atilde;&#151; 1 inches (53.3 &Atilde;&#151; 133.4 &Atilde;&#151; 2.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  69.272
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
