WD4406

Album in board covers entitled ‘Indian Sports, Vol:2d’ 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 huntsman on his elephant shoots at a deer.

Inscribed: ‘N31. Brown Deer shooting’.

f.3 Two hounds chase a hare, followed by the huntsman on horseback

Inscribed: ‘N32. Coursing. Plate 1’.

f.4 A dog and a crocodile fight over a deer in the river, watched by the huntsmen from the bank

Inscribed: ‘N33. Coursing. Plate 2. Anecdote.’

f.5 Two huntsmen on foot in the reeds shooting wildfowl.

Inscribed: ‘N34. Snipe Shooting.’

f.6 A huntsman on his elephant corners a large bear in a forest clearing.

Inscribed:’ N35. Bear Shooting. Plate 1.’

f.7 The bear grabs the elephant’s tusks while the huntsman takes aim.

Inscibed: ‘N36. Bear Shooting. Plate 2.’

f.8 The angry bear is pursued by a huntsman on horseback.

Inscribed: ‘N37. Bear Hunting. Plate 3.’

f.9 The horseman gallops away after wounding the bear with a spear.

Inscribed: ‘N38. Bear Hunting. Plate 4.’

f.10 The huntsmen remove spears from the dead bear.

Inscribed: ‘N39. Bear Hunting. Plate 5.’

f.11 A rhinoceros charges a huntsman on an elephant.

Inscribed: ‘N40. Rhinoceros Shooting.’

f.12 A man sits in a chair on the river bank, smoking his hookah, watching two fishing lines. A servant stands beside him with a sunshade, another sits nearby and a third holds a net ready for the catch.

Inscribed:’ N41. Fishing. Plate 1.’

f.13 The fisherman gets a bite.

Inscribed: ‘N42. Fishing. Plate 2.’

f.14 The fisherman reels in a large fish. A square two-storied house in the distance.

Inscribed: ‘N43. Fishing. Plate 3.’

f.15 The fisherman sits on the deck of a small riverboat with his line, his servant holds the sunshade aloft and another, sitting on the cabin roof, puts a hook on a second line.

Inscribed:’ N44. Fishing. Plate 4.’

f.16 A party of two men, one with a fishing rod, and two ladies sit on a paved landing stage, while a servant nets the catch.

Inscribed: ‘N45. Fishing. Plate 5.’

f.17 The fisherman hands his rod to a bearer as a second carries a huge fish out of the water.

Inscribed: ‘N46. Fishing. Plate 6.’

f.18 The huntsman in his howdah waves in excitement as they rush at a wild elephant.

Inscribed: ‘N47. Wild Elephant Shooting. Plate 1.’

f.19 The wild elephant runs away, pursued by the huntsmen firing their guns.

Inscribed: ‘N48. Wild Elephant Shooting. Plate 2.’

f.20 The wild elephant lies badly wounded in a forest clearing, the huntsman approaches on his elephant.

Inscribed:’ N49. Wild Elephant Shooting. Plate 3.’

f.21 A leopard being gored by an elephant.

Inscribed: ‘N50. Leopard Shooting. Plate 2. for Plate 1 vide Vol.1, N25.’

f.22 A leopard climbs a tree to escape the hunters.

Inscribed: ‘N51. Leopard Shooting. Plate 3.’

f.23 The leopard leaps out of the tree at a huntsman mounted on horseback.

Inscribed: ‘N52. Leopard hunting. Plate 4.’

f.24 Two shikari prepare to unleash a pair of cheetahs while in the middle distance two others are about to release a deer as prey. Two elegant couples sit watching from their howdahs.

Inscribed: ‘N53. Hunting with Cheetas. Plate 1’.

f.25 A cheetah catches a hare watched by a couple from their howdah.

Inscribed: ‘N54. Hunting with Cheetas. Plate 2’.

f.26 Two mounted huntsmen watch a lynx catching a fox.

Inscribed: ‘N55. Hunting with the Lynx or Seah-gosh’.

f.27 A tiger attacks a huntsman, who is about to shoot with his pistol.

Inscribed: ‘N56. Tiger Hunting. Plate 7 for Plate 6 Vide Vol.1 N23. Anecdote.’

f.28 The huntsman on his elephant approaches a lion at bay.

Inscribed: ‘N57. Lion Hunting. Plate 1.’

f.29 The lion leaps up at a hunter in his howdah, while his companion takes aim from nearby.

Inscribed: ‘N58. Lion Hunting. Plate 2.’

f.30 An Indian horseman waving a scimitar gallops off with the lion in pursuit.

Inscribed: ‘N59. Lion Hunting. Plate 3.’

f.31 The lion leaps from a rock onto the elephant, dislodging the howdah and knocking its occupant to the ground.

Inscribed: ‘N60. Lion Hunting. Plate 4.’

f.32 Two Indians armed with scimitars keep the lion at bay while the hunter takes aim. The mahout tries to calm the elephant beyond.

Inscribed: ‘N61. Lion Hunting. Plate 5.’

f.33 The wounded lion glares at the approaching hunters on their elephants.

Inscribed: ‘N62. Lion hunting. Plate 6.’

f.34 The shikari unties various dead animals from the backs of elephants and the huntsman prepares to climb down. A group of tents beyond.

Inscribed: ‘N63. Coming Home’.