Sujet

Hawking - the Lure, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Hawking - the Lure, 1850. 'A fine exhibition came off...on the [Berkshire] Downs, at about a mile and a half from the Wallingford station of the Great Western Railway. A quarry of seven blue rock pigeons, the swiftest that could be got, was flown. Five were killed, one escaping entirely, the other taking refuge in a stack of faggots, where it probably died, as it was much injured. One flight was most beautiful: the hawk was flown, and immediately soared an immense height, following the falconer for more than half a mile, and pounced upon the quarry with almost inconceivable rapidity, in fact like a stone; the pigeon was struck to the ground, and rebounded with the blow'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_077

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,1Mo (3,6Mo) / 33,5cm x 42,0cm / 3951 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

leisure animal countryside people male job man men flying bird birds hobby guy occupation British hunting bird of prey rustic location Victorian century Britain profession newspapers press concept falconer falconers falcon hawk pastime B&W lure peregrine falcon raptor engraved engraving 19th century falconry black & white black and white HUNTSMAN B W Falco peregrinus nineteenth century rural The Print Collector hawking Illustrated London News rural life ILN newspaper Unknown Regionalism 19th-century