[?CRUIKSHANK (George).]

TYGER HUNTING.

WITH AN ADDITIONAL IMAGE NOT RECORDED BY COHN

A suite of 6 hand-coloured etchings measuring 220 by 260mm, laid down on blue paper, plate 4 trimmed with some loss of the imprint, a little dusty but very good. London, Threadneedle St., Dean and Munday, n.d. but c, 1815.

£2,500.00

A possibly unknown suite of images illustrating a tiger hunt.

The group bears a resemblance to a set noted by Albert Cohn in his bibliography of George Cruikshank. Cohn tells us that this suite is “Found coloured and uncoloured but extremely rare in both states.” One wonders if he actually saw a set as he gives only abbreviated titles (out of sequence) and lists only five where we have six. Our set includes plate numbers which begins with setting out on the hunt and culminates with the death of the tiger.

The series is as follows: 1. Setting out to Hunt the Tyger; 2. Tyger in full Chase; 3. Tyger at Bay in the Water; 4. Tyger at Bay on Land; 5. The Tyger Hunted by Indian Dogs; and 6. Death of the Tyger.

More importantly, the images aren’t in Cruikshank’s distinctive style. They were doubtess influenced by either Williamson and Howitt’s Oriental Field Sports (1805-07), which was a critical and commercial success, or Charles D’Oyly who in 1814 published a dramatic image titled A Tiger Hunt. Of course, William Brooke’s satirical An Imperial Tiger Hunt appeared in 1813.

Cohn, 2059.

Stock No.
243900
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