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Images about Hunting

90 images from works
  • Four hunters on horseback with hounds, setting off for the hunt; a village in the background. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1850.
  • Page 121: Sita being lured by a disguised Ravana, while Rama and Laksmana hunt in the forest. Watercolour drawing.
  • A doctor out hunting: attacked by the hounds, having fallen from his horse. Coloured etching by J.H., 1842.
  • If you would rather see this... than this, then join us / League Against Cruel Sports Ltd.
  • Windsor Forest and Windsor Great Park: two mounted huntsmen with their hounds; in the background, a mansion surrounded by trees. Coloured woodcut, ca. 1850.
  • Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.
  • A rider on his horse baulking over a fox. Colour lithograph cut paper work.
  • A country scene with many activities depicted: these include, from left to right, picking cherries, bathing, hay-making, hunting, and eating and drinking. Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx.
  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • A huntress approaching a meditating Shiva. Chromolithograph, 1883.
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Works from the collections

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    A fish being carried off by a bird. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 26942i
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    Sport and travel in the northland of Canada / by David T. Hanbury.

    Hanbury, David T., 1864-1910. | Date: 1904
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    Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

    | Date: [1671] | Reference: 24654i
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    Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Coloured engraving.

    | Reference: 493571i
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    Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.

    | Reference: 493457i
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Related topics

Birds
Hunters
Dogs
Fishing
Horses
Agriculture
Deer
Horsemen and horsewomen
Bow and arrow
Seasons

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