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Source Description
Barye has traced illustrations of Europeans hunting tigers published in 1829 by William Harvey in his "Tower Menagerie," a history of the royal menagerie in the Tower of London. Sketched on the left is a running elephant in a pose similar to the one in Barye's "Tiger Hunt."
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Document identity
localId
15885
label
Tracings After Scenes of Tiger Hunts
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
15885
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Tracings After Scenes of Tiger Hunts
description
Barye has traced illustrations of Europeans hunting tigers published in 1829 by William Harvey in his "Tower Menagerie," a history of the royal menagerie in the Tower of London. Sketched on the left is a running elephant in a pose similar to the one in Barye's "Tiger Hunt."
provenance
Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
date
second quarter 19th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
sketches
drawing
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
21
height
33
dimensionsRaw
H: 8 1/4 x W: 13 in. (21 x 33 cm)
Source extras
med
graphite on tracing paper
creator_ids
6082
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
1956
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
87da66684ed215d4