WD4405

Album in board covers entitled ‘Indian Sports, Vol:1st’ on first page and signed ‘C.D’Oyly.’ Bookplate of Flora, Marchioness of Hastings, Countess of Loudoun, pasted inside front covers. The drawings are laid down and initialled on the page; each is numbered with an inscription on the facing page, and the numbering is consecutive through the two albums.

f.2 The hunting party prepares to set out, with a rider in a pink coat mounting his horse, a man wearing a top hat loading his gun, and shikari looking after the animals. A tent in the background.

Inscribed: ‘N1’. ‘Going out.’

Note: This drawing is signed.

f.3 The huntsman in red coat and top hat sits in a howdah, another elephant, carrying shikari, is alongside.

Inscribed: ‘N2. Breaking Jungle.’

f.4 A man standing upright in the howdah shoots wildfowl, another elephant in the distance.

Inscribed:’ N3. Black Partridge Shooting.’

f.5 An elephant with a wickerwork howdah, containing a huntsman in pink coat and broad brimmed hat, slithers down a steep bank.

Inscribed: ‘N4. Crossing a Nulla.’

f.6 The huntsman in the blue coat has shot a deer, while another runs off into the long grass.

Inscribed:’ N5. Hog Deer shooting’.

f.7 The huntsman on his elephant approaches a pool where a buffalo is wading.

Inscribed: ‘N6. Buffaloe shooting Plate 1.’

Note: The drawing is signed.

f.8 The huntsman shoots the buffalo.

Inscribed: ‘N7. Buffaloe shooting. Plate 2.’

f.9 The shikari tie up the dead buffalo to join two deer tied to the back of an elephant, while the huntsman issues orders.

Inscribed:’ Buffaloe shooting. Plate 3.’

f.10 Two huntsmen on horseback, carrying spears, set out from a village

Inscribed: ‘N9. Hog hunting. Plate 1.’

f.11 The huntsmen gallop after two wild boar.

Inscribed: ‘N10. Hog Hunting. Plate 2.’

f.12 A huntsman raises his spear as an angry boar rushes at his horse.

Inscribed:’ N11. Hog Hunting. Plate 3.’

f.13 A huntsman rides up to the wounded boar ready with a second spear.

Inscribed: ‘N12. Hog Hunting. Plate 4.’

f.14 The huntsman runs at the boar on foot, with a third spear.

Inscribed: ‘N13. Hog Hunting. Plate 5.’

f.15 Two mounted huntsmen approach a fierce looking boar standing in a pool.

Inscribed: ‘N14. Hog Hunting. Plate 6.’

f.16 A huntsman has missed a boar with his spear, and the animal has leaped at his horse, wounding it in the side

Inscribed: ‘N15. Hog Hunting. Plate 7.’

f.17 Both huntsmen examine the wounded horse.

Inscribed: ‘N16. Hog Hunting. Plate 8.’

f.18 The two huntsmen have dismounted beside a dead boar, one pulls his spear from it, the other mops his brow.

Inscribed: ‘N17. Hog Hunting. Plate 9.’

f.19 A tiger rests in a forest clearing, surrounded by bones.

Inscribed: ‘N18. Tiger shooting. Plate 1’.

f.20 The huntsmen, standing up in their howdahs, pursue the tiger.

Inscribed: ‘N19. Tiger shooting. Plate 2.’

f.21 The tiger turns and snarls at the shikari’s elephant.

Inscribed: ‘N20. Tiger shooting. Plate 3.’

f.22 The tiger leaps at the face of the huntsman’s elephant.

Inscribed: ‘N21. Tiger shooting. Plate 4.’

f.23 The mortally wounded tiger lies in a clearing while the huntsman continues to shoot at him.

Inscribed: ‘N22. Tiger shooting. Plate 5.’

f.24 The huntsman, shaded by a parasol, on the leading elephant, returns to camp followed by the shikari’s elephant with the dead tiger on its back.

Inscribed: ‘N23. Tiger Shooting. Plate 6.’

Note: For plate 7 see WD4406, f.27.

f.25 The huntsman, with two dogs, stands on a hillside, his bearer holding a parasol and a shikari carrying a spare rifle.

Inscribed: ‘N24. Partridge or quail shooting on foot.’

f.26 A shikari, up a tree, shoots at a leopard which is devouring a dead cow.

Inscribed: ‘N25. Leopard shooting.’

Note: For plate 2 see WD4406, f.21.

f.27 A mounted huntsman gallops after a game bird.

Inscribed:’ N26. Florikin shooting. Plate 1.’

f.28 The huntsman kneels to take aim at game birds, the shikari holds his horse nearby.

Inscribed: ‘N27. Florikin shooting. Plate 2.’

f.29 The huntsman, armed with a spear, gallops after a deer.

Inscribed: ‘N28. Deer Hunting. Plate 1.’

f.30 The deer falls wounded, with the spear through its shoulder, pursued by the two huntsmen.

Inscribed: ‘N29. Deer Hunting. Plate 2.’

f.31 The huntsman on his elephant watches as the shikari puts a hare into a sack.

Inscribed: ‘N30. Hare shooting.’