Items matching hunting (results page 1)

Chatsworth, DerbyshireThe People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

The engraving, based on a picture by Thomas Allom, shows in the foreground deer and people on horseback under large tree, but the view is dominated by the massiveness of the house itself. It is still [...]

Keywords: houses, palaces, stately homes, architecture, exteriors, deer, trees, hunting, peope, parks, greyscale

Places shown: Chatsworth; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2018-03-20

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100.—North Wall of Richborough.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A man hunts with rifle and dog beside the overgrown Roman walls of Richborough in Southern England. See Fig. 99 for the extract from the book.

Keywords: roman remains, walls, ruins, forts, people, dogs, hunting, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Richborough; Kent; England

Added: 2012-06-12

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter C by Valerio SpadaItalian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “C” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a man stands with a falcon on one arm, and a dog at his feet; he talks to a man on a horse. No doub [...]

Keywords: letterc, initials, historiated initials, frames, borders, people, bucolic scenes, hunting, riding, horses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-22

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231.—Boar-Hunting.—(From Cotton MS.)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The woodcut here is a drawing showing two men, each holding a spear, and in Anglo-Saxon dress with short tunics ending above theknee, and a dog;they are in a forest and in front of them are tw boars, [...]

Keywords: hunting, men, people, weapons, spears, anglo-saxon costumes, dogs, animals, trees, forests, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2019-06-09

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One of Multum in Parvo’s “going” days.Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

Parvo here is a rather strong-willed horse...We see the horse leaping past the hunting-dogs. The man riding the horse is a “toff” or country gentleman of the upper class, and hence portrayed as a lit [...]

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-03

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W with two horses and ridersMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

A decorative initial letter “W” with the W made from four fence-posts or tree-trunks, and with two men wearing hats, each riding a horse about to pass through one or other half of the letter. This ill [...]

Keywords: letterw, initials, horses, animals, people, riding, hunting, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-03

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1376.—St. Albans Hawking PartyOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Falconry in the 15th century, with St. Albans Abbey in the background.

The image is signed S. Johnson, which could be the name of the artist who drew the picture or of the engraver or both.

Keywords: hunting, sports, people, birds, trees, abbeys, falconry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-30

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1787.—Hunting.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Men hunting deer with dogs and horses. In the background a church steeple, reminding us that this is supposed to be a typical country scene.

Keywords: hunting, sports, animals, churches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-26

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1788.—Hawking.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“There was one sport exclusively confined to the noble and wealthy orders of society—hawking—which chiefly flourished and declined during the present period [the first half of the 17th century]. To a [...]

Keywords: hunting, sports, people, birds, trees, falconry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-04-28

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1790.—Shooting.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A hunting party, with men shooting at birds and perhaps animals using crossbows and rifles, and with hunting dogs to retrieve the things they killed. I somehow doubt that these are people who need to [...]

Keywords: people, sports, hunting, weapons, animals, dogs, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-14

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A Day With Puffington’s HoundsMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

A happy hunter beams as he holds up a dead rabbit. The rabbit doesn’t look happy. Men in red coats, white trousers and riding hats, horses, dogs.

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-03

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Hinchinbrook House, HuntingdonThe Story of Some English Shires (1897)

Queen Elizabeth I was entertained here in 1564 by the owner and original builder, Henry, grandson of one Morgan Williams of Glamorganshire, wife to the sister of Oliver Comwell. The house was sold in [...]

Keywords: houses, mansions, buildings, stately homes, battlements, tudor architecture, mullions, windows, towers, people, hunting, dogs, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Hinchinbrooke; Huntingdon; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2013-10-17

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