Set of two prints on hunting from "Oriental Field Sports"

a) H Merke after Thomas Williamson and Samuel Howitt
Beating Sugar for a Hog
1819
Hand-coloured aquatint on paper
Print size: 6.5 x 9.5 in (16.3 x 24.4 cm)
Sheet size: 7.25 x 11 in (18.6 x 27.9 cm)

Print shows three men on horseback, carrying spears, waiting, as Natives systematically beat sugarcane with bamboo staffs and, with the aid of two dogs, drive a wild hog from cover past the waiting hunters. Also shown are two oxen yoked to a plow, fleeing for their own safety, and Natives around an irrigation well at the edge of the cane field, likewise concerned for their safety. In the background, at the edge of the cane field, an elephant is used to turn back, ahead of the beaters, a hog that has attempted to escape by doubling back around the end of the line of Natives.

b) H Merke after Thomas Williamson and Samuel Howitt
The Chase after a Hog
1819
Hand-coloured aquatint on paper
Print size: 6.5 x 9.5 in (16.3 x 24.4 cm)
Sheet size: 7.25 x 11 in (18.6 x 27.9 cm)

Print shows men on horseback, carrying spears, chasing a wild hog through tall grasses. In the background, Natives are harvesting the grasses which they pile on a wagon or "hackerie". Also shown is a female hog with young hiding in a den beneath matted grass.

(Set of two)

These works will be shipped unframed

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