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Fowling

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  • A white pony and two dogs (field spaniels?) wait by a carved stone (church?) doorway. Engraving by W. Raddon after A. Cooper, 1827.
  • Four different ways of dealing with water during a fowl-hunting shoot: the hunter lying on ice, the hunter hiding in a boat, the hunter on stilts and the hunter using a pole as a bridge. Soft-ground etching by H. Alken, 1824.
  • M. de Mélincourt proudly returns from the hunt with his son, who presents to his mother and his aunt the game he has shot, though they doubt his claim. Engraving.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
  • A man points his gun at a bird in the air while his dogs are avid to fetch the prey. Steel engraving by Harris, 18--.
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Catalogue

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    Morbus sagittarius clinicus : Das Leipziger Klinische Vogelschießen und seine Festzeitungen / Marcel Korge und Ortun Riha (Hgg).

    | Date: 2015
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    A man points his gun at a bird in the air while his dogs are avid to fetch the prey. Steel engraving by Harris, 18--.

    Harris (Steel engraver) | Date: [approximately 1860?] | Reference: 41631i
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    Four different ways of dealing with water during a fowl-hunting shoot: the hunter lying on ice, the hunter hiding in a boat, the hunter on stilts and the hunter using a pole as a bridge. Soft-ground etching by H. Alken, 1824.

    Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851. | Date: [1824] | Reference: 41722i
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    Hungers preuention: or, the whole arte of fowling by water and land. Containing all the secrets belonging to that arte, and brought into a true forme or method, by which the most ignorant may know how to take any kind of fowle, either by land or water. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as trauell by Sea, and come into vninhabited places: Especially, all those that haue any thing to doe with new Plantations / [Gervase Markham].

    Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. | Date: [1621]
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    Two stockbrokers out shooting game in Hornsey Wood have a picnic: one of them compares them to swallows, as they awallow food and a bottle of sherry. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 29296i
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