Title

Springbok Hunting in South Africa, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Springbok Hunting in South Africa, 1850. 'The Springbok, or Bontebok {Antilope euchore)...is a most magnificent animal, larger than the gazelle, equalling...the speed of the fastest race-horse, and requiring the hardest riding and most intimate knowledge of its ways to enable the sportsman to get a fair shot...the sportsman, having dismounted, is taking a second shot at a wounded animal. His cap is decorated with ostrich-feathers; the horse is quite exhausted with the long chase. To the left is the cart which carries the game; and in the background several ostriches are scampering off...When pursued, Springboks frequently take an extraordinary bound (hence their name), rising with curved or elevated backs high into the air, generally to the height of eight feet, and appearing as if about to take flight'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A33_263

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50,2Mb (4,5Mb) / 16,5in x 11,8in / 4960 x 3538 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe animal wildlife Caucasian people male sport man men hat animals South Africa horses horse jumping country white guy continent clothes British weapon weapons gun guns European shooting hunting feathers hunter Savannah feather antelope dress war blood sports location Victorian century Britain newspapers press clothing gazelle gazelles concept APPAREL B&W springbok europeans warfare engraved engraving settler 19th century ostrich feather black & white black and white B W weaponry nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News veldt ILN newspaper settlers ostrich feathers Unknown Leaping Antelope 19th-century