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Crimean War, France: fishwomen carrying the luggage of nurses at Boulogne. Wood engraving by W. Thomas.
Reference: 21059i
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Sadler's Wells, with the New River running beside. Etching by F. W. Pailthorpe after R. C. Andrews, 1792.
Andrews, R. C., active 1792-1798.Reference: 38530i
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Ship-building: two types of Japanese boat. Drawing by J. Smith, c.1833.
Smith, James, active 1833.Date: 1833Reference: 44510i
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Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.
George Elgar HicksReference: 485467i
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Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.
George Elgar HicksDate: 1850Reference: 485415i
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Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes showing African life. Collotype.
Reference: 22897i
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OPPIANOU HALIEUTIKŌN/ BIBLIA PENTE. TOU AUTOU KYNĒGETIKŌN BIBLIA TESSARA. Oppiani De piscibus libri V. Eiusdem Ee Venatione libri IIII. Oppiani De piscibus Laurentio Lippio interprete libri V. [device] / [Oppian].
OppianDate: [M D XVII]
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People relaxing and boating in a circular cove
Lorraine, Mary, active approximately 1966-1967Date: 1 February 1967Reference: 3001114i
Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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Country contentments. or, The husbandmans recreations. : Containing the wholesome experience, in which any ought to recreate himself, after the toyl of more serious business. As namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grey-hounds, and the laws of leash, shooting in the long-bow or cross-bow, bowling, tennis, baloon; the whole art of angling; and the use of the fighting cock. / By G. Markham.
Gervase MarkhamDate: 1675
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A fisherman on a river bank offers a fish to a young woman and asks her for a favour. Engraving after M. van Cleve.
Marten van CleveDate: [approximately 1570?]Reference: 27990i
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Salmonia: or days of fly fishing. In a series of conversations. With some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo / By an angler [i.e. Sir H. Davy].
Humphry DavyDate: 1829
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The whole art and trade of hvsbandry, contained in foure bookes. Viz: I. Of earable-ground, tillage, and pasture. II. Of gardens, orchards, and vvoods. III. Of feeding, breeding, and curing of all manner of cattell. IIII. Of poultrie, fowle, fish, and bees / Enlarged by Barnaby Googe.
Konrad HeresbachDate: [1614]
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Well, St. Austell, Cornwall. Etching by J. Rowe, 1810, after S. Prout.
Samuel ProutDate: 1 May 1810Reference: 22632i
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Children fishing in a pond in a public park
Croney, Isobel, active approximately 1968Date: 5 March 1968Reference: 2922229i
Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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Two otters on a bank, one with a fish and the other fishing. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 39874i
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An ancient city on the banks of a lake, with people fishing in the foreground. Engraving by W. Smith after J. Taylor, 1775.
John TaylorDate: Oct.r 10, 1775Reference: 2475582i
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A young man sits on a rock by a waterfall playing the pipe, while two women with three sheep and a sheepdog rest on the right. Etching by F. Vivares after F. Zuccarelli, 17--.
Francesco ZuccarelliDate: [between 1750? and 1780]Reference: 2853708i
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The national police gazette. [Vol. 160, no.10], October 1955.
Date: 1955
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J. Hillier, hardwareman & fish hook maker (late apprentice to Mr. Jewson, deceased) : no. 15 Crooked Lane near the Monument sells all sorts of London, Sheffield & Birmingham cutlery-wares, wholesale & retail : N.B. superfine double strong battle gunpowder, shot, fine flints, &c. : fishing tackle of all sorts, variety of shooting articles.
Hillier, J.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]
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Curiosities of natural history : 1st-[4th] series / [Francis T. Buckland].
Francis Trevelyan BucklandDate: 1886-1888
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A fisherman who has AIDS hauling in a net of fish from his boat as his female partner stands holding a fish in one hand while balancing a large bowl of fish on her head within a red and turquoise dotted decorative border; with the message who will catch the fish (when he has died?); an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
Date: March 1995Reference: 677450i
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A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.
Reference: 26549i
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The apostles suddenly receive a miraculous shoal of fishes. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Raphael.
RaphaelReference: 23801i
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A young couple in sixteenth-century costume are sitting in a boat on the water, the man has a fishing rod in his hand. Chromotypograph after Louis Leloir.
Alexander Louis LeloirReference: 35194i
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Prose halieutics, or, ancient and modern fish tattle / by C. David Badham.
Charles David BadhamDate: 1854

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Crimean War, France: fishwomen carrying the luggage of nurses at Boulogne. Wood engraving by W. Thomas.

Sadler's Wells, with the New River running beside. Etching by F. W. Pailthorpe after R. C. Andrews, 1792.

Ship-building: two types of Japanese boat. Drawing by J. Smith, c.1833.

Rural life: nine scenes, including washerwomen, wood-cutters, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.

Musée du Congo, Tervuren, Belgium: one of five interior scenes showing African life. Collotype.

OPPIANOU HALIEUTIKŌN/ BIBLIA PENTE. TOU AUTOU KYNĒGETIKŌN BIBLIA TESSARA. Oppiani De piscibus libri V. Eiusdem Ee Venatione libri IIII. Oppiani De piscibus Laurentio Lippio interprete libri V. [device] / [Oppian].

People relaxing and boating in a circular cove

A fisherman on a river bank offers a fish to a young woman and asks her for a favour. Engraving after M. van Cleve.

Salmonia: or days of fly fishing. In a series of conversations. With some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo / By an angler [i.e. Sir H. Davy].

The whole art and trade of hvsbandry, contained in foure bookes. Viz: I. Of earable-ground, tillage, and pasture. II. Of gardens, orchards, and vvoods. III. Of feeding, breeding, and curing of all manner of cattell. IIII. Of poultrie, fowle, fish, and bees / Enlarged by Barnaby Googe.

Well, St. Austell, Cornwall. Etching by J. Rowe, 1810, after S. Prout.

Children fishing in a pond in a public park

Two otters on a bank, one with a fish and the other fishing. Coloured lithograph.

An ancient city on the banks of a lake, with people fishing in the foreground. Engraving by W. Smith after J. Taylor, 1775.

A young man sits on a rock by a waterfall playing the pipe, while two women with three sheep and a sheepdog rest on the right. Etching by F. Vivares after F. Zuccarelli, 17--.

The national police gazette. [Vol. 160, no.10], October 1955.

Curiosities of natural history : 1st-[4th] series / [Francis T. Buckland].

A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.

The apostles suddenly receive a miraculous shoal of fishes. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Raphael.

A young couple in sixteenth-century costume are sitting in a boat on the water, the man has a fishing rod in his hand. Chromotypograph after Louis Leloir.

Prose halieutics, or, ancient and modern fish tattle / by C. David Badham.