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This painting is based on a ancient eastern tale of an elephant in a dark cave. There is a number of men, each of which are examining a different part of the elephant, not knowing that they are in fact experiencing contact with the same animal. As the old wise man turns up with a lamp, they realise things clearly differ from what each of them claims it to be.