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 280
right. The tossing was done by two persons standing about twenty or twenty-fivefeet apart holding the ends of tossing slings made of webbing or cordwork abouttwenty-five feet in length. As the terrified animals were running about leaping over238 FOX-TOSSIJ^g the tossing slings, the centre of which… … FIG. 156. A SHOW-HUNT AT A GERMAN COURT. DEER BEING KILLED IN ANENCLOSURE FORMED OF CANVAS SCREENS TEN FEET HIGH. FROM FLEMINGSTEUTSCHE JAGER. PUBLISHED 1719. See Pages 2^-2^ the ground was covered with a thick layer of sand or sawdust, so as not to killthe wretched animal at the first toss. A…
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