Elephant of the Bastille, a triumphal fountain built by Emperor Napoleon in 1813 at the Place de la Bastille, Paris. Built of plaster and wood, and 40ft high with howdah on its back. Design for the Fountain of the Elephant at Paris. Woodblock engraving from The Penny Magazine, of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, printed by William Clowes, Lambeth, 1833.

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