CARPENTER, Percy (1820-1895)

Lot 161
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Lot 161 | CARPENTER, Percy (1820-1895)
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CARPENTER, Percy (1820-1895)

Hog Hunting in Lower Bengal. London: Day and Son, 1861.

Scarce first edition. Percy Carpenter studied painting at the Royal Academy where he exhibited in 1841. He travelled to Singapore, Ceylon and India between 1855 and 1860. By 1859, Carpenter was in Calcutta, and had developed his sporting speciality. The Calcutta Tent Club commissioned him to make drawings of their meet on the Sowerra Burrea Plains, near Tumluk, 50 miles southeast of Calcutta, in March 1860. The hunting party consisted of fifteen members of the Club, including their guests, with around four horses per person and attendants, numbering around sixty people. There were also eleven elephants to act as beaters in the long grass, jungle, and woods on the plain. The hunt lasted three days during which time they killed thirty seven hogs. Subsequently eight of Carpenter’s works were lithographed and published as the present work. Bobins I, 229; Czech Asian p.44; Schwerdt I, p.97.



Folio (570 x 420mm). Tinted lithographic title with large contemporary hand-coloured vignette and dedication to the The Calcutta Tent Club, 8 lithographic plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, all mounted on card with captions and ruled border printed in gold as issued (occasional light spotting mainly affecting letterpress, tiny tear to title, repaired marginal chip to corner of plate 1, corner of plate 2 creased, 180mm marginal tear and a couple of other tiny marginal tears to letterpress of plate 5 repaired without loss, large marginal chip to plate 6 just into gilt border repaired without loss). Publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover (rebacked in morocco, front cover slightly unevenly faded, extremities faintly rubbed); contained in a modern morocco-backed case. Provenance: South African public Library (cancel stamps on verso of title and lettered in gilt at base of spine).





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