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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 129

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n 1573, we gather that thissportsman had not used a cross-bow for the preceding twenty years. And to judgeby one of Lucas Cranachs own notes the middle of the sixteenth century witnessedconsiderable changes, at least on the Continent. For he tells us that while he wassharing the Elector John… … FIG. 52. FRIEZE DEPICTING COMBATS WITH WILD ANIMALS ANDGRIFFINS. ENGRAVED BY E. DELAUNE (STEPHANUS, 1519-1583). See Tage 99 preserved in the Court Library in Munich. It showed what he killed with hisown hands day by day between 1555 and 1579, when he died. The chief itemwas 4783 red deer which he…

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