His Imperial Majesty's shoot in Nepalese Terai December, 1911

[Notes: This label refers to two facing pages in this album: King George V of England with a tiger and Prime Minister Maharaja Sir Chandra Shamser Jang Bahadur Rana of Nepal]

In 1911, less than six months after his coronation in London, George V (reigned 1910-1936) traveled to Delhi for his coronation as king emperor of India. A week after the festivities in Delhi, King George, an avid hunter, accepted the hospitality of the prime minister of Nepal to participate in a royal hunt in the Nepalese jungle. He is seen standing over one of the many tigers he killed with the prime minister. In the album a formal portrait of the prime minister faces the hunting photograph.

The hunt itself was a huge endeavor, including thousands of men and hundreds of elephants. The kill tallied thirty-nine tigers, eighteen rhinos, and four sloth bears. Other albums of the 1911 hunt with photographs by the Herzog and Higgins Studio are known, including a large one that belonged to George V's wife, Queen Mary, which contains 278 photographs. Smaller albums such as this one were probably compiled for some of the British lords and military men that participated in the hunt with their king.