Title
Beating sugar-canes for a hog by Samuel Howitt,
Caption
Beating sugar-canes for a hog by Samuel Howitt, 1765?-1822, artist 1807. etching and aquatint, hand-coloured, shows three men on horseback, carrying spears, waiting, as Natives systematically beat sugarcane with bamboo staffs and, with the aid of two dogs, drive a wild hog from cover past the waiting hunters. Also shown are two oxen yoked to a plough, fleeing for their own safety, and Natives around an irrigation well at the edge of the cane field
Date
1807
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP17A03_102
License type
Rights managed
Available size
60,0Mb (4,3Mb) / 19,0in x 12,3in / 5700 x 3679 (300dpi)