Percy Carpenter
Hog Hunting in Lower Bengal
Publisher : Day & Son
London, 1861.
Percy Carpenter studied painting at the Royal Academy where he exhibited in 1841. He travelled to Singapore, Ceylon and India between 1855 and 1860. By 1859, Carpenter was in Calcutta, and had developed his sporting speciality. The Calcutta Tent Club commissioned him to make drawings of their meet on the Sowerra Burrea Plains, near Tumluk, 50 miles southeast of Calcutta, in March 1860. The hunting party consisted of fifteen members of the Club, including their guests, with around four horses per person and attendants, numbering around sixty people. There were also eleven elephants to act as beaters in the long grass, jungle, and woods on the plain. The hunt lasted three days during which time they killed thirty seven hogs. Subsequently eight of Carpenter’s works were lithographed and published as the present work.
Hog Hunting in Lower Bengal
Scarce first edition. (57 x 42cm) Tinted lithographic title with large contemporary hand-coloured vignette and dedication to the The Calcutta Tent Club, 8 lithographic plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, all mounted on card with captions and ruled border printed in gold as issued.
Binding: Publisher’s cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover (rebacked in morocco, front cover slightly unevenly faded, extremities faintly rubbed); contained in a modern morocco-backed case.
Condition: Rubbing on the extremities. Some foxing on the pages but little to no effect on plates. A good copy.
Exportable: No
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