Elephant, shops enemy of the Dragon medieval illustration on a Canvas

This image is from a medieval illuminated manuscript called a Bestiary. They contained Christian allegorical lessons based on the perceived traits and strengths of different animals found in nature or in legends.

Here's the description and allegorical explanation of this work:
The dragon was supposedly so powerful that its only enemy was the elephant. The dragon would lay in wait along the path of the elephant and then wraps itself around the elephant's legs, eventually suffocating the huge pachyderm. Just so does the devil entangles the foolish and faithless, and strangle them with his lies. Here the elephant looks more exasperated than frightened as the dragon wends around its powerful body. Given that the artist had likely never seen either type of animal, he has rendered the floppy ears, giant tusks, flexible trunk, and grey skin of the elephant quite shops convincingly.

I love these images. The quirky illustrations, the interesting stories.... they really take me into another world full of mysticism and magic, before science. As an artist, I love seeing the impeccably drawn pencil framework for the calligraphy and the image. Seeing those careful marks made by a long dead anonymous artist working on their craft gives me a sense of unity with them.

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Here's the details:

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• Acid-free, PH-neutral, poly-cotton base
• 20.5 mil (0.5 mm) thick poly-cotton blend canvas
• Canvas fabric weight: 13.9 oz/yd2(470 g/m²)
• Fade-resistant
• Hand-stretched over solid wood stretcher bars
• Matte finish coating
• 1.5″ (3.81 cm) deep
• Mounting brackets included
• Blank product in the EU sourced from Latvia
• Blank product in the US sourced from the US