Code: 11720
Dimensions:
"Sices, or Grooms, Leading Out Horses: Les Palfreniers Ou Sices, Promenant Chevaux"
Drawn by Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) after Capt Thos Williamson (1758-1817)
Engraved by Henri Merke (fl.1798-1818)
Published by Edward Orme (1774-1848)
Issued by Thomas McLean (1788–1875)
Folio-size etching & aquatint with hand-colour
London, 1818
Measure:-
38.5 cm x 48 cm (plate)
66 cm x 74 cm (framed)
Print No.38 from Orme's "Wild Sports of the East" (also known as "Oriental Field Sports").
Lettered beneath the image with the title in English and French and with the artist's and publication details: "Saml. Howitt del. from the original design of Capt. Thos Williamson / Edwd Orme Exudit / H. Marke sculpt / London Pubd by T.McLean Octr. 1818 / No.XXXVIII".
A very attractive image of horses being led out ahead of a hunt in early 19th Century India. The animals in the back ground (an elephant and a pair of camels), underline the exotic nature of the scene. Capt. Thomas George Williamson left England in 1778 to serve with the East India Company and was finally sent home 20 years later having criticised proposals made by Lord Cornwallis for reforming British forces in India. He wrote the text which accompanied the images in "Wild Sports of the East" and provided the source material which was worked up for Samuel Howitt for the engravings.
Expensively framed with triple mount, matched to the tones of the picture.
