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Hand-coloured print of riders on elephants chasing a tiger through tall grass, with palm trees and hills behind.

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A hand-coloured print shows a hunting party mounted on elephants with decorated howdahs and cloths, pursuing a striped tiger through tall yellow grass. Palm trees and distant hills frame the scene under a pale sky. The work is catalogued as ElephantbackTigerHunt by Samuel Howitt, dated 1808.

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1808

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Public domain

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