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 172
he quaint woodcut in the 1496 Wynkvn de Wordesedition of the Boke of St. Albans which is coeval or possibly slightly older than Kolderers moreelaborately finished illuminations in Emperor Maximilians Fishing-Book reproduced in a previous chapter.132 sixTeeo^TH ce^ru\r fishi^q better than any words… … FIG. 75. OSTRICH HUNTING IN AFRICA. DRAWING BY STRADANUS CIRCA 1570. Page 132 with the information that this is how the fish is caught by lamplight at night,but when the sun is shining it hangs from the treacherous hook ! The allegoricalgroup is meant to indicate day and night, while the landscape…
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