Title

Kangaroo Hunt in Western Australia, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Kangaroo Hunt in Western Australia, 1857. 'This exhilarating sport commences before sunrise, and the sense of freedom and enjoyment which one experiences, mounted on a good horse, in the early freshness of an Australian morning, on the boundless plains gemmed with the richest flowers, must be felt to be appreciated. The kangaroos, tall as grenadiers, with heads like rabbits, and tails like bedposts, afford an unlimited quantity of hard galloping; and as they are not bad to eat and are destructive to the farmers' crops their rapid extinction is inevitable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_301

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NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

21,9Mb (1,6Mb) / 12,4in x 6,8in / 3733 x 2047 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal wildlife sport riding rider riders Australia kangaroo British color hunting hunter hunters Western Australia marsupial kangaroos bush rustic horseman horsemen blood sports location century Britain newspapers press outback concept B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white HUNTSMAN B W white and black nineteenth century rural The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape Unknown Huntsmen Regionalism 19th-century Captain Henderson Henderson Captain