2-798-950 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Wallace, composer of the new opera of "Maritana", 1845. Portrait of Irish musician and composer William Vincent Wallace who travelled the world and had many adventures. While in the East Indies, '...he had a most miraculous escape in a tiger-hunt, when an enormous tiger sprang upon his horse, and he was thrown senseless to the ground. Recovering his consciousness and presence of mind, he drew a pistol from his belt, and, observing the tiger, who had been carried by his bound some yards beyond him, he took a deliberate aim; the ball entered the head of the animal, who fell dead, nearly crushing his vanquisher'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.