Ethiopia: a clearing in a forest, with men on horseback hunting leopards. Coloured lithograph by A. Brandmayer after J.M. Bernatz.
- Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
- Date:
- [1852-1855]
- Reference:
- 3015991i
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Description
Possibly the event described by Kirk, op. cit. p. 234: "our camel-men killed a leopard with their spears", though the hunters are here mounted on horses, not camels
Publication/Creation
[London] : [F.G. Moon] ; [Munich] : [The author], [1852-1855]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 26.3 x 34.5 cm
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Lettering
Leopard hunting. J.M. Bernatz del. A. Brandmayer lith.
Bears number: XXII
References note
R. Kirk, 'Report on the route from Tajurra to Ankóbar, travelled by the Mission to Shwá, under charge of Captain W. C. Harris, Engineers, 1841 (close of the dry season)', Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1842, 12: 221-238
Not in: J.R. Abbey, Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860, vol. I, London, 1957, though mentioned on p. 258, under no. 291 (W.C. Harris, The highlands of Aethiopia, 1844)
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Wellcome Collection 3015991i
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