Concept

Fowling

Images

  • A white pony and two dogs (field spaniels?) wait by a carved stone (church?) doorway. Engraving by W. Raddon after A. Cooper, 1827.
  • Four different ways of dealing with water during a fowl-hunting shoot: the hunter lying on ice, the hunter hiding in a boat, the hunter on stilts and the hunter using a pole as a bridge. Soft-ground etching by H. Alken, 1824.
  • M. de Mélincourt proudly returns from the hunt with his son, who presents to his mother and his aunt the game he has shot, though they doubt his claim. Engraving.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
  • A man points his gun at a bird in the air while his dogs are avid to fetch the prey. Steel engraving by Harris, 18--.
  • A white pony and two dogs (field spaniels?) wait by a carved stone (church?) doorway. Engraving by W. Raddon after A. Cooper, 1827.
  • William Proctor. Photograph by John R. Edis after J. Bouet.
  • Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
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