Lot Essay
Including: Beating Sugar Canes for a Hog; Hog-Hunters meeting by surprise a Tigress & her Cubs; The Chase after a Hog; Peacock Shooting; Decoy Elephants leaving the Male fastened to a Tree; The Dead Hog.
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Oriental Field Sports: Six Plates (Abbey Travel 427)
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WILLIAM-SAMUEL HOWITT (1765-1822), AFTER CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON
Oriental Field Sports: Six Plates (Abbey Travel 427)
six aquatints in colors, 1805-7, on laid papers, published by Edward Orme, London, all with margins, pale light-staining, occasional scattered foxing, a few with soft handling creases and with color slightly attenuated, otherwise all apparently in good condition, in black gilt frames, not examined out of the frames
all P. approx. 13 x 17¾ in. (330 x 451 mm.)
all overall 19 x 23 in. (483 x 584 mm.) (6)
Oriental Field Sports: Six Plates (Abbey Travel 427)
six aquatints in colors, 1805-7, on laid papers, published by Edward Orme, London, all with margins, pale light-staining, occasional scattered foxing, a few with soft handling creases and with color slightly attenuated, otherwise all apparently in good condition, in black gilt frames, not examined out of the frames
all P. approx. 13 x 17¾ in. (330 x 451 mm.)
all overall 19 x 23 in. (483 x 584 mm.) (6)