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 169
in this guise. All the friends of the Evil One promptlycame to his rescue, and the forest seemed filled with swarms of infuriated badgers,who gave battle. Less familiar to us than the chases already described is that depicted in Fig. 72, R 129 ST07(T I^C ^KX for the essentially Oriental sport of… … FIG. 73. ELEPHANT HUNTING IN AFRICA.1570. SIGNED. See Page 132 ORIGINAL DRAWING BY STRADANUS CIRCA Latin inscription beneath the picture that it represents a hare-hunting party orTurkish grandees. Stradanus had probably heard that this was the favourite sportof the Turks, and no doubt the fame of…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
