Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British

after Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Title:
Tiger Hunting in the East Indies
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, mezzotint, and etching with hand coloring on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/2 x 29 1/8 inches (52.1 x 74 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue ink, on back, lower left: "25/58"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1985.36.1302
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
tigers | elephants (animals) | animals | gentlemen | natives | sporting art | scepter | turbans | pagris | spears | swords | rifles | ladder | basket | trees | men | servants | hunting | ropes | hunters | death
Associated Places:
Asia | West Bengal | Chandannagar | India
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05)
Publications:
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 168-73, fig. 107, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA)

Morna O'Neill, Company Culture:, British Artists and the East India Company 1770-1830: October 16, 2003-January 11, 2004 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, no. 6, V 1199 (YCBA)

Romita Ray, Under the banyan tree, relocating the picturesque in British India , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, pp. 206-07, fig. 90, N8214.5.I5 R39 2013 (YCBA)

John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v. 1, p. 261, Earlom no. 50, NE1816.G7 S58 2004

Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA)

Mary Webster, Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1976, p. 84, no. 113, NJ18 Z68 W43 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21287