Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. : from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. : with a supplement of New South Wales (London : Edward Orme, [ca. 1819])

This colour-plate book is best known in Australia for its New South Wales supplement which shows illustrations of the Aborigines hunting, but there are about one hundred other hand-coloured plates showing sports from countries such as India and Africa. Hunting in one form or another is the general subject matter.

The book is open at the plate, “India hog hunting 4”. It shows the hunter on horse-back being attacked by a leopard. The accompanying letterpress begins:

Hog-hunting in India is at all times a very dangerous amusement; though, so great is the entertainment it affords, that the pursuit of it becomes an infatuation. (p. 75)

As the hunt takes place in long grass, it is not uncommon for the hunter to meet with other wild animals. The incident shown actually happened and the hunter died a few days later of “locked jaw”, i.e. tetanus.

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