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  • Two men catching partridges by trapping them in a net and letting a dog track the birds down. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • A compilation of hunting and trapping implements, arranged around a shell-shaped ornament into which a gin-trapped feline is clawing in its death-throes; including baits and decoys as well as birds of prey used for hunting. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Hunting: traps and hides for catching birds. Coloured engraving.
  • Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Coloured engraving.
  • Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Coloured engraving.
  • Birds of the meadow shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the town shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the waterside shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the garden shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the country shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the forest shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the river estuary shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the sand dunes shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the sand dunes shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Hunting: a trap for a ploughed field (top), and details of a trap for roosting birds (below) Engraving, c.1762, by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Birds of the heath and moorland shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the marsh and swamp shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds living around a stone breakwater shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Birds typical of a beach in summer shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds typical of a beach in winter shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground-feeding birds, and a wolf-trap (?) Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: two variants of a trap for catching roosting birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vaginas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vaginas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Hunting: a man stalking partridges (?) (top), a trap for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Eight men playing quoits in a woodland clearing. Etching by Eugèe Henri Millet, 1873.
  • A cottage at the junction of two roads: a waggon is driven along one of the roads, while a cowherd drives a cow along the other. Etching by J.C. Klengel, 1773.
  • Birds attacking an owl resting upon a staff held by a naked woman; representing patience. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A fox about to fall into a pit-trap disguised with shrubwood. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.