Lot Essay
Including: Shooting a Leopard; A Tiger springing upon an Elephant; Death of the Bear; Shooting at the Edge of a Jungle; Killing Game in boats; A Tiger killed by a Poisoned Arrow.
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Oriental Field Sports: Six Plates (A.T. 427)
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WILLIAM-SAMUEL HOWITT, AFTER CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON
Oriental Field Sports: Six Plates (A.T. 427)
six aquatints in colors, 1805-7, on laid papers, published by Edward Orme, London, all with margins, pale light-staining, occaisional scattered foxing and with color slightly attenuated, otherwise all apparently in good condition, in black gilt frames, not examined out of the frames
all P. 13 x 17¾ in. (330 x 452 mm.)
all overall 19 x 23 in. (483 x 584 mm.) (6)
Oriental Field Sports: Six Plates (A.T. 427)
six aquatints in colors, 1805-7, on laid papers, published by Edward Orme, London, all with margins, pale light-staining, occaisional scattered foxing and with color slightly attenuated, otherwise all apparently in good condition, in black gilt frames, not examined out of the frames
all P. 13 x 17¾ in. (330 x 452 mm.)
all overall 19 x 23 in. (483 x 584 mm.) (6)