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 170
tury, is said to have kept over one thousandleopards for the chase.130 S7!l*JT>*Amj7S IT>e*AS ^fBOC/T ST07(T The Italians, who, through their commercial connections, were brought into con-stant relations with the East, seem first to have introduced this form of chase intoEurope, and the… … FIG. 74. ELEPHANT HUNTING BY TROGLODYTES IN AFRICA. ENGRAVING AFTERSTRADANUS. OUT OF THE VENATIONES, PUBLISHED 1578. See Page 132 Francis I had many trained leopards, and the naturalist Gesner describes the mannerin which he says he saw them used at this monarchs court. The leopard sat ona cushion…
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