Willoughby Wallace Hooper
(1837–1912)
Marked down
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Willoughby Wallace Hooper (1837-1912) was in the 7th Madras Light Cavalry. He particularly photographed hunting expeditions and Anglo-Indian life scenes, but he is also known for his images of the Madras famine in 1876-78 and the third Anglo-Burmese war of the mid 1880s. Here the hunters sneak up on an unsuspecting tiger in the foreground.
- Year
- circa 1872
- Media
- Photograph
- Medium
- albumen silver print mounted on card
- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 22.2cm image; 22.0 x 25.5cm sheet (irreg.)
- Credit
- Gift of Jim Masselos 2011
- Accession number
- 372.2011
