Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822, British, A Tiger Resting: the frontispiece for "Oriental Field Sports", 1805
- Title:
- A Tiger Resting: the frontispiece for "Oriental Field Sports"
- Date:
- 1805
- Medium:
- 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:
- animal art | palm trees | resting | rocks (landforms) | tiger
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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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)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54372
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