Title

'The Camel', c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Caption

'The Camel', c1850. The central image shows the Arabian Camel or Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) with a single hump, and the Asian or Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) with two humps. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): a messenger riding a camel; a camel caravan crossing a desert; a camel loaded with merchandise; camels mounted with guns; camel hair cloth being sold in a shop; a desert encampment with camels used for meat and for milk; loading camel with goods; Arab ladies riding on camels. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1850

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_280

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,3Mb) / 14,9in x 13,0in / 4468 x 3908 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel transport transportation animal agriculture food people animals riding rider desert British geography color colour Arab travelling camel camels mounted Victorian century camp Britain caravan dromedary Bactrian camel 19th century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive Bactria Bactrian geographical feature lithograph Thomas Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Thomas Varty Varty Hawkins Benjamin Waterhouse Thomas Varty lithograph