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Sport in art; an iconography of sport during four hundred years from the beginning of the fifteenth of the end of the eighteenth centuries (1913)

Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921 · London, Ballantyne and co., ltd · leaf 128

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sto the use of fire-arms for killing wild fowl. Unfortunately it leaves us in thedark whether it referred to the use of shot or only to ball—most probably tothe latter only.96 0U88^ M^T(T STUARTS ACT In Scotland the use of fire-arms for purposes of the chase seems to have beenknown some little time… … FIG. 51. EMPEROR CHARLES V AND SEVERAL ELECTORS SHOOTING STAGS AT ADRIVE NEAR TORGAU, ONE OF THE LAST GREAT COURT HUNTS AT WHICH THECROSS-BOW WAS EXCLUSIVELY USED. PAINTING BY LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER1545, IN THE POSSESSION OF LORD POWERSCOURT. See Pages 92-94 it was provided that no liege should…

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