Description | Original caption verso: "A.E.H.& skull of Hippo. (Manlicher-Schonner Rifle .256 - used by A.E.H. to shoot big game except buffaloes, elephants & eland)." Portrait of Albert Ernest Hamerton, rifle in hand, seated on a verandah. On his right, a partly decomposed hippopotamus skull.
The caption anglicises the Austrian Mannlicher-Schönauer sporting rifle. |