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 56
e the animal in the centre of thepicture, probably intended to represent a chamois buck, stares unflinchingly at theapproaching veneur armed with a cross-bow. The squatting pose of this beastreminds one more of the curious habit of the rare white Rocky Mountain goat28 g^sro^ T>8 FOIX than of… … FIG. 15. THE RUNNING HOUND OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Page ^z he had seen one buck jump down a height often fathoms without being killed oreven injured—were probably the Spanish species. Though in one of the ibexpictures the artist gives in two instances fairly correct…
Sports in art · Sporting prints · Hunting · Artists
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