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 42
horthunting sword, was a feat that required grit of the true sort; while in the case ofa big boar, dealing out strokes of his deadly tusks with lightning rapidity, it was,if it was performed on horseback, a deed requiring not only the above qualities butH g^fSTO\ T>€ FOIX perfect horsemanship.… … FIG. 6. BUSTLING HARES OUT OF CORNFIELDS AND SHOOTING THEM WITH BLUNTBOLTS FROM LONG-BOWS AND CROSS-BOWS. FROM GASTON DE FOIXS MS. FIRSTHALF OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY. See Tage 25 chase, until, finally, sport was degraded to mere slaughter, and that by men securelyensconsed in danger-proof stands, to…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
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