A Tiger Resting: the frontispiece for "Oriental Field Sports"
Date:
1805
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 inches (23.2 × 33 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown ink, lower right: "Howitt"; not dated
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2006.14.27
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
palm trees | animal art | rocks (landforms) | tiger | resting
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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:
Sarah Murden, The story of a domesticated tiger, , All Things Georgian, February 27, 2018, https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/the-story-of-a-domesticated-tiger/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)Michael Sack, India on transferware, a compendium on Indian scenes on transferware together with their source prints , Transferware Collectors Club, [S.l.], 2009, p. 149, NK4277 S34 2009 (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. 137, V2359 (YCBA)