elephants for colleen

Another "personalized" postcard, this time based on Colleen's affection for elephants and the color green. The background map of Southern India is a Fodor guide map of 1972, colorized green. (Note in lower right, beneath the stone elephants, that the island nation next to India is Ceylon, not yet Sri Lanka.) Sources for the elephants are: big leg--painting by Walton Ford reproduced in Taschen catalog; central large one--Cavallini postcard; two in upper right & one in lower left--Pictorial Webster's; stone carvings in lower right--uncredited photo.

I set up a little visual connection between the map and the stone elephants: the elephants are from the temple at Mahabalipuram, and right under the large elephant's posterior belly, "Mahabalipuram" is written, next to its location on the coast. (I've been there--it's fantastic!)