George III in profile to the right on a white horse rides down a stag which is under the hoofs of his rearing horse. He wears the Windsor uniform (blue coat with red collar and cuffs) and holds a riding-whip above his head. A wooded landscape suggests...
Alternative Title:
Modern Saint George
Description:
Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1788 for I. and I.B. by R. Clamp, Holborn
Subject (Name):
George, Saint, -303., West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Manuscript on paper of Carta de foresta, a collection of hunting and forestry laws. With a collection of extracts, in Latin, all concerning laws of forestry
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Scotin, Gérard Jean Baptiste, 1698-approximately 1755, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Nov. 27, 1738, according to the late act.
Call Number:
738.11.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A chimpanzee holding a bowl stands in a landscape, a decorated frame surrounding the image. In the background left, a man shoots an arrow at chimpanzees climbing a palm tree, and on the right three chimpanzees play on the ground, one standing upright ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.
Subject (Topic):
Animals in human situations, Chimpanzees, and Hunting
Volume 2, page 22. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A wooded scene in the immediate suburbs of London, with St. Paul's in the background. Two 'cits' with guns prepare to fire, since their dog points at a bush, behind which, concealed from the sportsmen, squats a man excreting (left). A man holding a p...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Septr. 1st, 1785, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Marylebone
Manuscript on parchment (crude) of Copy of an account book for the hunting expenses of King Charles VI of France. The account is rendered by Philippe de Courguilleroy (?) "chevalier maistre veneur du Roy et maistre de ses canes et forestz" and encompa...
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 October 1834]
Call Number:
834.10.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four rows of designs with one to three designs in each, individually titled. In the upper left and reading across, "Daddy Longlegs" shows a very think, long-legged man poised to smash the insect on his wall. To the right, on top "The itinerant chance...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger from captions below each design, starting in the upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square, and sold by T. Dewhurst, T. Drake, R. Thorley, Wiseheart, Ross & Nightingale, and Printed by Dean & Munday, 40 Threadneedle St.
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
Manuscript on paper (highly polished) of Xenophon, De venatione, translated into Latin by Leonicenus Omnibonus and preceded by a dedicatory epistle to John Tiptoft
A Bangladeshi hunting scene showing three riders, one a woman riding side-saddle, following a pack of hounds; an English women with her children in a wagon and another woman rider in the foreground, all attended by Indian servants. In the background i...
Alternative Title:
Dharmasagar, Comilla
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Comilla (Bangladesh)
Subject (Topic):
Hunting, Horseback riding, Hunting dogs, Carts & wagons, Servants, Bodies of water, and Buildings
"Hunting scene, hounds in the distance in full cry. In the foreground two riders gallop across a field; one is in pink, the other is a neatly-dressed parson in tricorne hat, and bushy powdered wig. The former: Holloa Hark!--Doctor--d'ye hear that char...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Chas. Hunt, 18 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
Number four in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's...
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Fishing & hunting gear, Horseback riding, Hunting, and Postal stationery
"Three Frenchmen stand crouching in a shallow pond trying to catch the frogs which swim wildly. They are unsuitably dressed for their occupation. Two wear swords, one with 'chapeau bras', and a long pigtail queue, the other two have bag-wigs. A woman ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Lakes & ponds, Frogs, and Hunting
Huntsmen and hounds with moutned members of the hunt are in an enclosure flanked by corn-stacks and resembling a farmyard, except for a boiling-house with a tall chimeny and joints of meat hanging from the gable-end of a building. The artist (Robert C...
Manuscript diary in the hand of Henry Ridinger, 1878-1882. Ridinger describes his work as a herder in Colorado, landscapes and topography in Colorado, Navajo settlements, working in the hay trade, a shooting and arrest in Colorado, and his travel thr...
Description:
Henry Ridinger (1851-1938) was born in either Iowa or Illinois in 1851. His family moved to Kansas in 1857 and he left home at the age of 11, circa 1862. He worked as a cattle herder and hay farmer in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma for several years i...
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Colorado, Indian Territory, and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Ridinger, Henry, 1851-1938. and Ridinger, Sam
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Cherokee Indians, Crime, Hay trade, Herders, Hunting, Indians of North America, Government relations, Jews, Navajo Indians, Osage Indians, Pawnee Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, and Description and travel
Boke of Saint Albans Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyverse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke Here in thys booke folowyng is determyned the lynage of coote armuris B...
Description:
BEIN Zi +9828: Imperfect: Fol. 12 (2d count, blank) wanting; fol. 45 mutilated and restored.
Manuscript on paper of Seventeen hunting calls with hunting codes for the horn. Instructions in English: "To call the Company in the Morninge...The Mount is from partie to partie every Note repeated thrice."
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of a hunting diary of Ferdinando de' Medici (1549-1609), Cardinal, and Grand Duke of Tuscany; this portion of the manuscript covers the period 15 October 1579 to 21 March 1585
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Tuscany (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.
Subject (Topic):
Hunting, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Social life and customs
A mounted American Indian male aims his arrow at a buffalo, while a second rider holding a spear pivots to engage a buffalo that has knocked down a third hunter and his horse
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
John G. Wellstood?
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, and American bison
A mounted American Indian male aims his arrow at a buffalo, while a second rider holding a spear pivots to engage a buffalo that has knocked down a third hunter and his horse
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
John G. Wellstood?
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, and American bison
Two men stand and converse as they attempt to load their shotguns, the stocks of both their guns resting on the ground. The man on the right looks over at the other man and lets powder drop from his open hand; his shot pouch is seen on the ground in f...
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing two mounted Native Americans hunting one buffalo, in blue, red, black, and ocher on a pale cream background
Alternative Title:
From an Indian painting on elkskin, Great Plains
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc12 939in 7: From the library of Alfred Heller.
Publisher:
Federal Art Project, WPA
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains, California, and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Golden Gate International Exposition
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, Commemoration, Subsistence activities, Arts & crafts, and Bison hunting
A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance anot...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, and Parrots
Design consists of twenty-one individually-captioned panels arranged in three horizonal rows illustrating Johnny's arrival in Jamaica, his contracting Yellow Fever, his illness and temporary recovery, his brief participation in Jamaican society, his r...
Alternative Title:
Johnny Newcome in the island of Jamaica
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubbished [sic] by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Black people, Pulse, Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Diseases, Relapse, Medicines, Bedrooms, Cemeteries, Clergy, Servants, Lawyers, Coffins, Couples, Death, Interiors, Physicians, Vomiting, Yellow fever, and Hunting
Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a collection of 15 letters describing life in England, translated into French, possibly from German. The letters discuss English lotteries; the proliferation of newspapers; the constitution a...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., England, France, and Versailles (France)
Subject (Name):
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Elections, Hunting, Lotteries, Slave trade, Newspapers, Nobility, Travelers' writings, French, Description and travel, History, Women, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Oppian. 2) Summary of the poem in art. 1. 3) Scholia on Oppian, Halieutica, attributed to Tzetzes. 4) Paraphrasis of Oppian, Cynegetica, attributed to Tzetzes
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Oppian, active 2nd century.
Subject (Topic):
Greek poetry, Hellenistic, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, lithographer, artist
Published / Created:
[1 August 1832]
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 18 Box 7
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven rows of individually-titled designs on one sheet folded in half to create two pages. Starting with the largest design at the top of the first page, "Military pastime, or, The bastards in their glory" shows men in military uniform laughing and dr...
Alternative Title:
Bastards in their glory
Description:
Title devised by cataloger, using caption above design at top of first page.
Publisher:
Published by E. King, news agent, Chancery Lane, also by C.N. Lewis, bookseller & news agent, 6 Market St., Manchester, & by Ross & Nightingale, at the office of the Liverpool Chronicle, 9 Lord St., Liverpool, & of most booksellers & newsmen in town & country
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837 and Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, Eating & drinking, Whipping, Soldiers, Fire extinguishers, Stoves, Liberty cap, Boats, Bags, Monsters, Noses, Singing, Kings, Queens, Writing materials, Sausages, Devil, Pitchforks, Older people, Gluttony, Obesity, Hunting, Stomach aches, and Horses
A fashionably dressed woman in a riding costume walks down the path beside a walled garden, riding crop in hand. In the distance a hunters and hunting dogs are shown in pursuit of a deer. On the hills in the far distance is a large compound of buildl...
Alternative Title:
Octobre
Description:
Title in English and French etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Burt's print reproduces the 1850 Ranney painting On the wing, which portrays a duck hunting scene in a marsh; a boy, a dog, and a sportsman, with dead game at his feet; sportsman about to shoot down the next bird; transom of small boat shown in grass ...
Description:
BEIN Broadsides Box 2024 35: On sheet 13.7 x 19.0 cm. Handwritten below image: On the wing.
A dandified hunter sits on a log in front of a simple fence, his shotgun and a bottle beside him. A pie (or plate?) and fork are laid out on a small cloth on the ground in front of him; a small bird feeds on crumbs in front of the cloth. The man inspe...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London and Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Hunting, Rifles, Bottles, Food, Forks, and Birds
A dandified hunter sits on a log in front of a simple fence, his shotgun and a bottle beside him. A pie (or plate?) and fork are laid out on a small cloth on the ground in front of him; a small bird feeds on crumbs in front of the cloth. The man inspe...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Tregear, 123 Cheapside, London and Printed by Lefevre & Kohler, 52 Newman Stt
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Hunting, Rifles, Bottles, Food, Forks, and Birds
Manuscript kennel book listing "whelps bread" from 1708 to 1727, giving sire, dam, and placement for each. A few pages at the back of the book list hounds given by Orlebar to John Biggs, the Duke of Grafton, and the Earl of Halifax between 1716 and 17...
Description:
Richard Orlebar (1671-1733) attended Trinity College, Oxford and was a member of the Middle Temple and a dedicated hunter. He married the heiress Diana Astry in 1708 and the couple built Hinwick Hall in Bedfordshire between 1709 and 1714. Orlebar serv...
Subject (Geographic):
England, Bedfordshire., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Orlebar, Richard, 1671-1733.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Breeding, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Bedfordshire (England), and Social life and customs
Photograph album of a trip taken in the fall of 1898 through the Rocky Mountains by John S. McIntire and Byron Stedman, both from Dayton, Ohio. Photographs include portraits of Crow Indians in Wyoming and portraits of Stedman and McIntire, their cook,...
Description:
Individual prints are 21.2 x 16.0 cm. and are accompanied by manuscript captions.
Photograph album depicting the landscape and participants of a pack trip to the Grand Canyon along the Mystic Springs and Hange trails, including views of boating on the Colorado River, Cataract Creek Canyon, the Havasupai Indian Agency, Havasupai Poi...
Description:
Album lacks covers. Individual photographs are 15 x 20 cm. or smaller, and have repeating orotone letterpress captions. Numbers inscribed in negatives of some prints.
Publisher:
George L. Rose
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Oraibi (Ariz.), Walpi (Ariz.), Havasupai Reservation (Ariz.), British Columbia, and Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Pictorial works, Hopi Indians, Navajo Indians, Rites and ceremonies, and Hunting
Photographs documenting the life of Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967), members of his family, and associates, ca. 1860-1967. In addition to portraits of Sassoon at various ages from childhood to just before his death, the images consist primarily...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Kent (England), Leicestershire (England), Measham (England), and Weirleigh (England)
Subject (Name):
Beer, Rachel Sassoon, 1858-1927., Champneys, F. W., Mrs., Donaldson, Alyse., Donaldson, Frances Sarah Thornycroft, 1846-1929., Donaldson, Mary., Fenner, Hilda., Francis, John, 1780-1861, Gatty, Stephen Herbert, 1849-1922., Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885, Gosse, Nellie., Hamilton, Nellie Donaldson., Homeward, John., Hyeem, Mozelle Sassoon., Merchant, Bessie., Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938, Perkins, Frances., Ross, Alexander., Sassoon family., Sassoon, Alfred Ezra, 1861-1895., Sassoon, George, 1936-, Sassoon, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, 1853-1947., Sassoon, Hamo Watts, 1887-1915., Sassoon, Hester Gatty., Sassoon, Michael, 1884-1969., Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967., Smith, Patrick MacKenzie., Thornycroft family., Thornycroft, Eldrid., Thornycroft, Helen, 1848-1937., Thornycroft, Joan., Thornycroft, John Isaac, Sir, 1843-1928., Thornycroft, Mary, 1814-1895., Thornycroft, Thomas, 1815-1885., Thornycroft, William Hamo, Sir, 1850-1925., Warren, Edward Perry, 1860-1928., and Royal Northumberland Yacht Club.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments, Statues, Horsemanship, Hunting, Sculptors, and Sculpture
Two American Indian males in a canoe laden with a killed doe return to their village, where they are greeted by women and children against a background of tipis
Two men hunt in the field across from a thatched cottage (left) with large tree in it front yard, separated from the road by a rail fence. The hunter on the left has just fired his gun at two birds in flight above right. His companion stands ready wit...
Description:
Titled etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
