Samuel Howett, Illustrator, Oriental Field Sports, Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East, by Capt. Thomas Williamson (1808), London, Edward Orme. This work is justly celebrated for Samuel Howitt's hand-coloured aquatint engravings of dynamic hunting and sporting scenes of the period. The work gave a rapt British public an eye-witness view of one of the most exotic, mysterious and beautiful places of the Empire. In addition, the work includes the natural history for rhinoceroses, tigers, leopards, bears, deers, buffalos, wolves, wild boars, jackalls, wild dogs, feathered game, fishes, and serpents. |