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 279
Flemingstime was the water-hunt, when deer were forced to cross ponds or streams onwhich were boats where the sportsmen hid behind screens made of green boughs,as is depicted in Fig. 158. A still worse instance of decadent sport which was greatly 237 STOT^T I^i *AT{T enjoyed by the courtiers, and… … FIG. 155. A SHOW-HUNT AT A GERMAN COURT. WILD BOAR BEING KILLED IN ANARENA. FROM FLEMINGS TEUTSCHE JAGER. PUBLISHED 1719. See Pages 234.-24.3 enclosures formed by canvas screens, or in the large courtyards ot palaces wheretheir Serene Highnesses could witness the gay scene from their windows.…
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