Tiger hunting in the East Indies

Daniell, Thomas (1749–1840)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1798

Height:

82.9 cm  (32 5/8 in.)

Width:

127.0 cm  (50 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

This painting presents a scene of 18th century tiger hunters riding on elephants and luring their prey with noise; the large circular object mounted high on the center elephant may be a gong or rotating sound device; other sound devices or instruments may be implied with the figures on the two elephants toward the rear of the hunters' group, especially a drum and perhaps a horn at the right of the painting.

Iconclass

25F25(ELEPHANT)
trunked animals: elephant
25F23(TIGER)
beasts of prey, predatory animals: tiger
43C11123
hunt ~ predatory animals (fox, lion)
43C1142
hunters hunting
22D1
loud sound, noise
48CC7341
drum (musical instrument) - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Drum [2585]
Gong [2820]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

De Almeida, Hermione. Indian Renaissance: British romantic art and the prospect of India (Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005) 296, 324.


Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts: A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904 (London: Henry Graves & Co., 1905-1906) vol. 2, 242, 1798, no. 266.

Exhibition catalogue: 30th exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1798) 12, no. 266.


Shellim, Maurice. Oil paintings of India and the east by Thomas Daniell 1749-1840 and William Daniell 1769-1837 (London: Inchcape & Co., 1979) 54, cat. no. TD37.



Tagore, Sir Prodyot Coomar. Catalogue of the pictures and sculptures in the collection of the Maharaja Tagore, with short notices of some of the eminent painters (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1905) 52.

RIdIM record id

6255