JF Ptak Science Books LLC  Post 413

The title of this lithograph–which appeared in the 27 October 1907 issue of The Illustrated London News–is “Tigers Shot While You Wait in Luxury, Ranji’s Latest Wonder”, and described transporting the Club Room into the wild for blood sport.   I don’t think I’ve ever encountered that phrase before, “tigers shot while you wait in luxury”.   The shooting was done from the portable luxo-car that we see in the upper left corner, which would’ve been transported, probably by a team of humans, into the depths of teh jungle, or at least deep enough for a tiger to be enticed in towards the hunting shed (with promises of meat scents and such?)
The abomination was made for the sporting whims of Prince Ranjinisnhi (“the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar”).  The shed looks to be about 16x8x8 and had a kitchen, drawing room, and “bathroom and lavatory”, all “decorated in the Queen Anne style, with somewhat severe oak paneling on the walls, relieved with ormolu appliques…”, with nothing but the finest decorating everything else.  The boredom for the Prince was further relieved with portholes for shooting whatever, so that there needn’t be any cause for going outside. This is just wrong on every level.