Blood Sports Gallery

Colonel Mordaunt watching a cock fight at Lucknow, India, 1790. Artist: Johan Zoffany

Colonel Mordaunt watching a cock fight at Lucknow, India, 1790. In an open-sided tent, East India Company officers and administrators sit and stand under a canopy. In the foreground two cocks with metal spurs fight, anxiously watched by attendants. Various members of the surrounding Indian crowd hold their fighting cocks in readiness for their turn. A group of women stand apart on the left with musicians behind them. This picture once belonged to Warren Hastings (1732-1818), the first Governor-General of India

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Forty-eight vignettes of bullfighting manoeuvers and scenes from the ring, ca. 1800-1850

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The Prince of Wales Pheasant-Shooting at Sandringham, 1893, (1901). Creator: Unknown

The Prince of Wales Pheasant-Shooting at Sandringham, 1893, (1901). Prince Albert Edward (1841-1910), the future King Edward VII, sitting on a shooting stick during a pheasant shoot on the royal estate in Norfolk. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]

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