The Hunting Cheetah

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Size:	10 x 14 inches (with mount)
Medium:	Hand-Coloured Engraving
Condition:	Fair condition; spotting around white border in top half

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A hand-coloured engraving by William Daniell from “The Oriental Annual: Containing a Series of Tales, Legends, and Historical Romances” by Reverend Hobart Caunter and Thomas Bacon. Published by Edward Bull London, 1834-1840. The title of the engraving is “Sports of the East - the Hunting Cheetah” and depicts the cheetah in Indian courtly culture being used for hunting. The Asiatic cheetah was kept by kings and princes to hunt gazelle and blackbucks from about the 12th century in India. The Mughal emperor Akbar had around 1000 Cheetahs for hunting gazelle and blackbucks.
William Daniell RA (1769 - 1837) was an English landscape and marine painter and printmaker, notable for his work in aquatint. He travelled extensively in India in the company of his uncle Thomas Daniell, with whom he collaborated on one of the finest illustrated works of the period - Oriental Scenery. He later travelled around the coastline of Britain to paint watercolours for the equally ambitious book A Voyage Round Great Britain. His work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution and he became a Royal Academician in 1822.

The engraving measures 6.25 x 9.5 inches without the mount and 10 x 14 inches with the mount.

Description

A hand-coloured engraving by William Daniell from “The Oriental Annual: Containing a Series of Tales, Legends, and Historical Romances” by Reverend Hobart Caunter and Thomas Bacon. Published by Edward Bull London, 1834-1840. The title of the engraving is “Sports of the East - the Hunting Cheetah” and depicts the cheetah in Indian courtly culture being used for hunting. The Asiatic cheetah was kept by kings and princes to hunt gazelle and blackbucks from about the 12th century in India. The Mughal emperor Akbar had around 1000 Cheetahs for hunting gazelle and blackbucks.
William Daniell RA (1769 - 1837) was an English landscape and marine painter and printmaker, notable for his work in aquatint. He travelled extensively in India in the company of his uncle Thomas Daniell, with whom he collaborated on one of the finest illustrated works of the period - Oriental Scenery. He later travelled around the coastline of Britain to paint watercolours for the equally ambitious book A Voyage Round Great Britain. His work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution and he became a Royal Academician in 1822.

The engraving measures 6.25 x 9.5 inches without the mount and 10 x 14 inches with the mount.

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Size:	10 x 14 inches (with mount)
Medium:	Hand-Coloured Engraving
Condition:	Fair condition; spotting around white border in top half

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