Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Attack by a Tiger.

Accession number: 
05762
Record number: 
05762-7
JCB call number: 
D822 R662
Image title: 
Attack by a Tiger.
Creator 1: 
I. Clark
Creator 1 role: 
Sc.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
Black, Young & Young, Tavistock St. Covent Garden
Image date: 
1822
Image function: 
plate; following p. 156
Technique: 
etching, aquatint
Image dimension height: 
10.4 cm.
Image dimension width: 
17.8 cm.
Page dimension height: 
21.1 cm.
Page dimension width: 
12.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
European man tries to club a tiger [jaguar?] with his gun or musket. Another European and some native Americans rush to his aid. Includes campfires and packs or luggage.
Source creator: 
Robinson, J. H., surgeon
Source Title: 
Journal of an expedition 1400 miles up the Orinoco and 300 up the Arauca; ..
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
For Black, Young and Young, Foreign Booksellers, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.
Source date: 
MDCCCXXII. [1822]
notes: 
The author remarks that both tigers [jaguars ?] and crocodiles or alligators are very plentiful in this area of the Arauca River. He had gone away from camp in hopes of shooting fowl when he was confronted with what he describes as a small tiger.Advertisement states that the author wished his name to be concealed, because he was critical of the people and government of Venezuela. His journey "in support of the South American Patriots" began in late 1817.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America
Subject headings: 
Animal attacks