Sport In Art An Iconography Of Sport Illustrating The Field Sports Of Europe And America From The 15th To The End Of The 18th Century

These pages provide a selection of pictorial material that shows the evolution which hunting, shooting, falconry, and fishing underwent from the fifteenth century (just previous to the invention of printing) to the French Revolution, thus taking in the four centuries that are as vital to the history of venery as they are to that of art. Some old pictures of horsemanship, and the first pictorial descriptions of mountain climbing have been included in the last chapters.Baillie-Grohman, William A. is the author of 'Sport In Art An Iconography Of Sport Illustrating The Field Sports Of Europe And America From The 15th To The End Of The 18th Century' with ISBN 9781410215536 and ISBN 1410215539.