Sir Ralph William Payne-Gallwey, 3rd baronet. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1893.

  • Leslie Ward
Date:
Aug.t 10, 1893
Reference:
821966i
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Description

Ralph William Frankland Payne-Gallwey, bart. Engineer, historian, ballistics expert, and artist. Author of books on military and sporting history, theory, and practice, including The fowler in Ireland; or, notes on the haunts and habits of wildfowl and seafowl, including instructions in the art of shooting and capturing them (1882); The crossbow, mediæval and modern, military and sporting; its construction, history and management, with a treatise on the balista and catapult of the ancients (1903); and A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other oriental bows of mediaeval and later times (1907). Portrayed holding a gun and and smoking a pipe

Publication/Creation

[London] : Vanity fair, Aug.t 10, 1893 ([London] : Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, lith.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 32.6 x 19.4 cm

Contributors

Lettering

"Letters to young shooters". Spy. Vanity fair.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 821966i

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