RECLINING BULL 192
_Ancient Southern Indian sculpture. From a photograph in
the India Museum._
WILD BULLS AND TAMED BULLS 201
_Reliefs on two gold cups found in a tomb at Vapheio near
Amyclae. Fifteenth century B.C. (possibly earlier). From
Schuckhardt’s “Schliemann’s Excavations.” By permission of
Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd._
THE GARDEN OF EDEN 208
_By Rubens. Hague Gallery._ (_Bruckmann._)
GENESIS VIII. 212
_Loggie di Raffaello. In the Vatican. Drawn by N.
Consoni._
DANIEL AND THE LIONS 216
_From an early Christian Sarcophagus in S. Vitale,
Ravenna._ (_Alinari._)
“AN INDIAN ORPHEUS” 222
_Inlaid marble work panel originally surmounting a doorway
in the Great Hall of Audience in the Mogul Palace at Delhi
(about 1650). Photographed for this work from a painting
by a native artist in the India Museum. Imitated from a
painting by Raphael._
MOSLEM BEGGAR FEEDING DOGS AT CONSTANTINOPLE 226
_From life._
ST. JEROME EXTRACTING A THORN FROM THE PAW OF A LION 253
_By Hubert van Eyck. Naples Museum._ (_Anderson._)
ST. EUSTACE (OR ST. HUBERT) AND THE STAG 256
_By Vittore Pisano. National Gallery._ (_Hanfstängl._)
“LE MENEUR DES LOUPS” 276
_Designed and drawn by Maurice Sand._
THE ASSYRIAN HORSE 284
_From a relief in the British Museum._ (_Mansell._)
ARABIAN HORSE OF THE SAHARA 288
_From life._
THE BANYAN DEER 328
_From “Stûpa of Bharhut.” By General Cunningham. By
permission of the India Office._ (_Griggs._)
EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL, WITH HIS WIFE, ENGAGED IN FOWLING IN THE 330
PAPYRUS SWAMP. HIS HUNTING CAT HAS SEIZED THREE BIRDS.
_Mural painting in British Museum._ (_Mansell._)
ASSYRIAN LION AND LIONESS IN PARADISE PARK 336
_British Museum._ (_Mansell._) The King’s reservations
for big game were called “paradises.”
LAMBS 338
_Relief on a fifth century tomb at Ravenna._ (_Alinari._)
“IL BUON PASTORE” 346
_Mosaic in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia at Ravenna._
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[Illustration:
LT COL. MAISEY DEL. W. BRIGGS, LITH.
DEER WORSHIPPING THE WHEEL OF THE LAW.
Tope of Sanchi.]
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