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 232
inventor of the art, but mayhave been the first to introduce itinto France. Still it does notsupport the theory that it was invented in the year 1590. Nor does Martinez de Espinars remark, that partridges are shot with an arquebus flying, help to confirm it, for it was madein 1644. The same maybe… … ,ti«/,>«,-p„l,,. , FIG. 118. VENETIAN NOBLEMEN SHOOTINGWILD FOWL ON THEIR LAGOONS. THIS ISBELIEVED TO BE THE EARLIEST PICTUREILLUSTRATING THE ART OF SHOOTING ONTHE WING. DESIGNED BY G. FRANCO_ IN 1609.See Figs. I 39 and 172, Pages 189-193, and App. sto^t i^c ^X^ necessarily mean shooting on the…
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