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Watercolor of hunters on elephants in tall grass aiming at a tiger, with palm trees and a river behind them.

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The Tiger at Bay: an illustration for Captain Thomas Williamson's "Oriental Field Sports

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Samuel Howitt

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The Tiger at Bay: an illustration for Captain Thomas Williamson's "Oriental Field Sports, Samuel Howitt (1807), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A watercolor shows several elephants with howdahs and mahouts moving through tall grass as hunters aim rifles and spears at a striped tiger that crouches on the ground. Palm trees, a river and distant hills frame the scene under a pale sky. The work is an illustration by Samuel Howitt, dated 1807, for Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports.

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Date
1807
Medium
Print
Museum
Wikimedia Commons
License
Public domain
Themes
Landscapes