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 314
FIG. 181. FALCONER PICKING UP THE GRAND DUC. BY RIDINGER (TH. 121). Set-Page 268 271 USe OF THS J87(F^LCO\ /^ \USSItA play the part of robber. As soon as it had come within a reasonable distance ofthe hawking party, a jerfalcon was unhooded and cast off, and the real spcrtcommenced. … FIG. 182. GOSHAWK STOOPING AT A HARE. RIDINGER (TH. 129). P. 277 An amusing account is given in the Art of Venerie of the use the Czar otMuscovy made of the jerfalcon. It appears that this highly-prized hawk wasflown at ravens, whose monstrous strong flight and tricky manoeuvres makethem very…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
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