The Tiger at Bay: an illustration for Captain Thomas Williamson's "Oriental Field Sports"
Date:
1807
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 14 1/8 × 19 1/8 inches (35.9 × 48.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2006.14.26
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
hunters | tiger | illustration | landscape | field sports | creek | lake | spears | stream | hunting | sporting art | men | sports | palm trees | trees | elephants (animals) | grass | literary theme | guns | mountains
Associated Places:
India | Asia
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
Publications:
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 36, no. 136, V2359 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Samuel Howitt, a sporting artist, made these two drawing as illustrations for Captain Thomas Williamson’s book Oriental Field Sports (1807). Both show British sportsmen hunting tigers with elephants, and with the aid of Indian scouts and grooms. Since Howitt had never been to India, he was reliant on drawings and descriptions made by Williamson himself. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)