16 results filtered with: Fowling
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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--.
Harris (Steel engraver)Date: [approximately 1860?]Reference: 41631i
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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.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851.Date: [1824]Reference: 41722i- Books
Hungers preuention: or, the whole arte of fowling by water and land. Containing all the secrets belonging to that arte, and brought into a true forme or method, by which the most ignorant may know how to take any kind of fowle, either by land or water. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as trauell by Sea, and come into vninhabited places: Especially, all those that haue any thing to doe with new Plantations / [Gervase Markham].
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.Date: [1621]
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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.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 29296i
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Les amusemens innocens, contenant le traité des oiseaux de voliere, ou le parfait oiseleur ... / Traduit en partie de l'ouvrage italien d'Olina & mis en ordre d'après les avis des plus habiles oiseleurs.
Olina, Giovanni Pietro, active 1622.Date: 1774
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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.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: Feb.y 1831Reference: 578913iPart of: Scraps and sketches depicting scenes of British life.
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The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein those ... exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged ... Also the method of breeding and managing a hunting-horse: unto which is now annex'd an appendix of choice [with] receipts for the cure of several maladies. Whereto is added [an abridgment of Manwood's Forest laws, and of all the acts ... made since; which relate to hunting, etc.] A perfect abstract of all the forest-laws, and of every particular act of Parliament since Magna charta ... to which is prefix'd a large sculpture, giving easy directions for blowing the horn and other sculptures proper to each recreation, / [Nicholas Cox].
Cox, Nicholas, active 1673-1721.Date: 1721- Books
Der Vogelsteller, oder, Die Kunst allerley Arten von Vögeln sowohl ohne als auch auf dem Vogelheerd bequem und in Menge zu fangen : nebst den dahin gehörigen Kupfern und einer Naturgeschichte der bekannten und neuentdeckten Vögel / von Johann Andreas Naumann.
Naumann, Johann Andreas, 1744-1826.Date: 1980- Archives and manuscripts
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Curd, P. deDate: 1651-1662Reference: MS.1975
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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.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 34705i- Pictures
A rural landscape: milkmaids milking cows; hunters shooting game birds. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 2491320i
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Francisci Willughbeii ... : Ornithologiæ libri tres ... / totum opus recognovit, digessit, supplevit Joannes Raius. ; Sumptus in Chalcographos fecit Illustriss. D. Emma Willughby, Vidua.
Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672.Date: 1676- Pictures
A white pony and two dogs (field spaniels?) wait by a carved stone (church?) doorway. Engraving by W. Raddon after A. Cooper, 1827.
Cooper, Abraham, 1787-1868.Date: Dec. 1, 1827Reference: 562230i- Books
The ornithology of Francis Willughby ... In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known ... are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by ... LXXVIII copper plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry / By John Ray.
Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672.Date: [1678]- Books
The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore; whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation, with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same / [Nicholas Cox].
Cox, Nicholas, active 1673-1721.Date: 1677
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William Proctor. Photograph by John R. Edis after J. Bouet.
Bouet, Joseph, 1791-1856.Date: 1900-1999Reference: 13428i