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 234
fojvli^q Tieces published in 1727, were then of all men the most expert wild-fowlers. Its asrare for a professed marksman of that nation to miss a bird, as for one of ours tokill, he declares. This inferiority ceased to exist half a century later in consequenceof the extinction of game in France by… … FIG. 119. COMBATS OF WILD ANIMALS, HELD IN DRESDEN IN 1617.AFTER A PICTURE BY DANIEL BRETSCHNEIDER (1578-1640). See Pages 193-5 that Continental writers gave instructions in the art at an earlier date than did ours.Blome, who was the first English author to write about it, evidently consideredthat…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
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