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 283
trious company. That injuries on such occasions were notinfrequent need hardly be mentioned, and more than one tosser was marked forlife by the claws of a wild cat or the tusks of a young boar. The former animals,as one writer remarks, do not give a pleasing kind of sport, for if they cannot 2 h… … FIG. 159. FOX-TOSSING, FASHIONABLE AT GERMAN COURTS IN THE EIGHTEENTHCENTURY. FROM FLEMINGS TEUTSCHE JAGER. PUBLISHED 1719. S^iVg-w 234-243 At some of the minor German courts fox-tossing remained long in favour. Land-gravine Emily of Hesse, an ancestress of the present grand-ducal house of…
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