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 315
ized hawk wasflown at ravens, whose monstrous strong flight and tricky manoeuvres makethem very difficult to capture. But in the end the hawk prevails, and the ravenis forced to take the stand, i.e. to perch in a tree. But that shift little 2 M 273 sTOT^r i^c tJR? prevails, for no sooner is she… … FIG. 183. THE FALCONER CASTING OFF HIS HERON-HAWK. BYRIDINGER (TH. IIS). See Page 277 by means of many hands, the hawkes all the while lying upon their wings lookingfor their game, who finding the tree to fail her, at the fall is driven to trust to herwings again, and so by a fresh flight and new…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
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