Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9

Samuel Howitt: 'Battle between Buffalo and Tiger' print after Thomas Williamson

About the Item

Samuel Howitt (1765-1822) after Thomas Williamson (1758-1817) Exhibition of a Battle between a Buffalo & a Tiger' from Oriental Field Sports (1819) Hand-coloured aquatint 35 x 47 cm Captain Thomas Williamson served in a British regiment in Bengal, India. He was known as a keen sportsman and, after returning to England, his notable interest in contemporary Indian sports attracted the attention of the publisher Edward Orme. Orme was a British engraver, painter and publisher of illustrated books, and in 1805 he commissioned Williamson to produce a work focused on Oriental sports and animals. The book took two years to complete, with the painter Samuel Howitt commissioned to produce watercolours based on original sketches by Williamson, most of which he had created while in India. The book in which the aquatint plates after Howitt were published was called Oriental Field Sports, which describes itself as 'being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, and other undomesticated animals'.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 13.78 in (35 cm)Width: 18.51 in (47 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • After:
    Thomas Williamson (1817 - 1860, English)
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Generally very good, mounted to board. Frame in 'country house' condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU795310779872
More From This SellerView All
  • The Flight into Egypt 17th century engraving after Rubens by Lucas Vorsterman
    By Peter Paul Rubens
    Located in London, GB
    To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Lucas Vorsterman (1595 - 1675) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) The Fligh...
    Category

    1620s Realist Landscape Prints

    Materials

    Engraving

  • Rosemary Ellis Snail on Leaf Linocut Modern British Art Wildlife Mid Century
    By Rosemary Ellis
    Located in London, GB
    From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...
    Category

    1950s Realist Animal Prints

    Materials

    Linocut

  • Rosemary Ellis Surreal Snail Linocut Modern British Art Wildlife Mid Century
    By Rosemary Ellis
    Located in London, GB
    From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...
    Category

    1950s Realist Animal Prints

    Materials

    Linocut

  • Cecil Aldin: 'The Master' 20th century hunting lithograph
    Located in London, GB
    Cecil Aldin (1870 - 1935) The Master Lithograph 48 x 40 cm A jolly lithograph of an MFH and his hounds. Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life. Aldin executed village scenes and rural buildings in chalk, pencil, and also wash sketching. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds, and many of his pictures illustrated hunting. Aldin's early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John...
    Category

    Early 20th Century Animal Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

  • Edward Bawden: 'Aesop's Fables: Peacock and Magpie' 20th century linocut print
    By Edward Bawden
    Located in London, GB
    To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Edward Bawden (1903 - 1989) Aesop's Fables: Peacock and Magpie (1970) Linocut ...
    Category

    1970s Modern Animal Prints

    Materials

    Linocut

  • Snaffles: 'The Huntsman' signed lithograph - "The 'oss loves the 'ound"
    Located in London, GB
    To see our other hunting prints and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" and then search. C...
    Category

    1930s Impressionist Animal Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

You May Also Like
  • "Vachere Au Bord de L'Eau, " Etching and Aquatint by Camille Pissarro
    By Camille Pissarro
    Located in Milwaukee, WI
    "Vachere au Bord de L'Eau" is an original etching and aquatint by Camille Pissarro, the 8th state. It can be found in the catalogue raisonne Delteil #93. It features a woman sitting ...
    Category

    1890s Realist Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Etching, Aquatint

  • Black Geese
    By Winifred Austen
    Located in San Francisco, CA
    This artwork titled "Black Geese" 1934 is an original color aquatint by noted British artist Winifred Marie Louise Austen, 1876-1964. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) is 9 x 13.75 inches, sheet size is 10.30 x 16.5 inches. Published by Arthur Greatorax LTD, Grafton street, London. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born at Ramsgate, Kent on 12 July 1876, Winifred Austen only daughter of Josiah Austin, a Cornish naval surgeon, and his wife Fanny, née Mann. She amended the spelling of her surname from Austin to Austen from the time that she began to exhibit. In 1892 the family moved to Hornsey, London from where Austin attended the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts, studying under Cuthbert Swan, an animal painter. I n 1899 Austen exhibited a picture of a lion at the Royal Academy and in all exhibited more than seventy pictures at the Academy, the last in 1961. She worked in both oils and watercolor but Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. In all she made some two hundred etched plates, beginning in 1906 with a series entitled The White Heron. She had particular feeling for birds and small mammals, and the naturalist Sir Peter...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Prints

    Materials

    Aquatint

  • Etching by Curtis C Harmon Fishing Boats at Gloucester Mass
    Located in Chesterfield, NJ
    Curtis C. Harmon (American, 20th century) Fishing Boats at Gloucester, Massachusetts etching signed Curtis C. Harmon (lower right) and titled (lower left) 10 x 12 inches. Discolorat...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Prints

    Materials

    Etching

  • César - Centaur - Picasso's Homage - Original Signed Etching
    By César Baldaccini
    Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
    César Baldaccini Original Etching Dimensions: 56.5 x 40 cm Signed and Numbered Edition of 99 It is the only original etching ever made by César. César Baldaccini was born in Marseille in 1921. At the age of 12, he left the school to help his father, cooper. At 15 years old, he studied at the Art college of Marseille. He took evening drawing teachings, and then was interested in sculpture until 1939. In 1942, César received a scholarship and went to Paris. He studied ten years at the School of Beaux-Arts; he worked in the studios of Gaumont and Alfred Jeanniot and was named “Grand Massier” (teacher) of this school. At that time, he was living in the same house as Alberto Giacometti. In 1944, short of resources, he went to Marseille, then return to Paris, next year. With the 50s, he made discovered his work through his first exhibitions. One of its works (« The fish ») obtained a place in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1955). Henceforth, he exhibited ceaselessly, participating in numerous “Salons” in France and abroad. César received numerous prices there. He got personal exhibitions everywhere (Japan, the United States, Holland, France, Italy, etc.). Important retrospectives came, later. In 1970, he was named professor a foreman to the School of Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his all life, Caesar was stimulated by « the love of the profession » and by an extraordinary will to innovate. The humor of the man did not miss and was noticed through his work. Pablo Picasso was his major reference, also Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, Pablo Gargallo and Julio Gonzales...
    Category

    1980s Realist Animal Prints

    Materials

    Etching

  • Italian Summer, Framed Etching by Michael Chapman
    By Michael James Chaplin
    Located in Brecon, Powys
    Etching from the studio of this acclaimed British Watercolorist. Good condition. Image 15.5" x 11.5" English artist Michael Chaplin is a Member of the Royal Watercolor Society, pa...
    Category

    1990s Realist Landscape Prints

    Materials

    Etching

  • Tigre couché à l'entrée de son antre (Tiger Lying at the Entrance to its Lair)
    By Eugène Delacroix
    Located in Middletown, NY
    Etching, drypoint, and roulette on watermarked Hallines cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (95 x 148 mm), full margins. A very good impression of this charming image, with all of...
    Category

    Early 19th Century Realist Animal Prints

    Materials

    Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Recently Viewed

View All