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Two men with guns about to shoot a duck on a pond without authorisation. Coloured etching.

A poacher is ducked in a pond by a landowner as a punishment for shooting ducks. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

A flying mallard which has been shot in the wing by a hunter. Steel engraving by J. W. Archer after G. Lance.

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A poacher is ducked in a pond by a landowner as a punishment for shooting ducks. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

A flying mallard which has been shot in the wing by a hunter. Steel engraving by J. W. Archer after G. Lance.

Two men with guns about to shoot a duck on a pond without authorisation. Coloured etching.