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  • A fishing-bird sits on a rock on the shore of a river in China. Etching by G. Child.
  • Men fishing from the banks of the river and from a bridge spanning the water. Engraving after H. Bol.
  • Three boys are fishing in rock pools with a large net. Engraving by J.T. Willmore after W. Collins.
  • Fishing: a trap for fish in the Seine, below the Pont Notre Dame in Paris; three-quarter view (top), and elevation (below) Engraving, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Two men at sea in a fishing boat: one leans over the side, feeling seasick. Reproduction of a nineteenth century engraving.
  • A large family of fisher folk in Naples are gathered together around a fishing boat. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura.
  • Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.
  • Rural life: seven scenes, including milking, gleaning, and fishing. Lithograph, c.1850, by M. and N. Hanhart after G.E. Hicks.
  • China during the Cultural Revolution: a young woman doctor in a fishing village preparing acupuncture needles. Colour lithograph after Peng Yuzhang, 1975.
  • A child buys eels from a woman with a basket, and three small boys are in a fishing boat with nets. Etching.
  • Two line-drawn fishing boats with large fishing nets capturing a decorative circular object (the HIV virus structure) in between a sequence of illustrations demonstrating how the HIV virus can and can't be transmitted; an AIDS warning issued by the Gipuzkoako Hies Kontrako Elkarte Hiritarra Asociacion Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Gipuzkoa. Colour lithograph by Xabi, 1993.
  • A landlord, while fishing, reads property advertisements in the newspaper and exclaims at the levels of rent being asked. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.
  • A young couple in sixteenth-century costume are sitting in a boat on the water, the man has a fishing rod in his hand. Chromotypograph after Louis Leloir.
  • Three men in a boat are out fishing on a lake, one has caught an eel on the end of his line. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A man sits in a boat with three fishing rods as two others row him across the lake, a fish jumps in the background behind them. Process print after John Leech.
  • A man dressed in a hat and heavy coat is carrying a fishing rod as he nears a turbulent river on a very windy day. Process print after John Leech.
  • The Panama Canal: Dr Cornelius Herz, one of those responsible for its financing, having fled France, spends his time fishing in Bournemouth. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Formosan tribal peoples engaged in raising the thatched roof of a hut, mending fishing nets and tending lobster traps in a stream. Painting by a Taiwanese artist from around 1850.
  • A boy fishing with a rod; he steps into the water and kills a fish with a spear; his father, smoking a cigar, reprimands him and he cries. Colour process print, 1909.
  • Children are sitting on the banks of a river watching as a man is pulled along by the fish on the end of his fishing line. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • The month February and the sign of Pisces, represented by a fishing port by a city gate and by Christ's calling of the disciples. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
  • A man fishing on a river has caught a fish on the end of his line, the gilly is offering to help reel it in. Coloured wood engraving by E. Froment after J.E. Hodgson.
  • A man is standing on the banks of a river with a fishing line in the water, he is hunched against the very wet and windy weather. Coloured process print after J. Leech.
  • A man is standing on the banks of a river with a broken fishing line and an escaping fish; he then appears from out of the water with the fish in his arms. Coloured process print after John Leech.
  • A fishing boat drawn up on to the beach at Scheveningen, surrounded by fishermen and a fishwife selling fish to customers. Etching by C. Weisbrod and engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1779, after P. Bout.
  • A message about not fishing without your net, a condom; a safe-sex advertisement by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad and Tobago. Colour lithograph by Illya Furlonge-Walker and Mark Lyndersay, ca. 1995.
  • A tailor fishing on a river bank is cowering away from a man with a large cosh hidden behind his back, who robs him of his hat, coat and boots. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 183-.
  • A man is fishing with a line from the banks of a river, as another man sits on the bank with a net in his hand. Engraving by Andrew Duncan, 1836, after Newton (?) Fielding.
  • People from Unalaska, Alaska, and one of their huts, with canoes and fishing equipment; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Etching by J. Hall and S. Middiman, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A man is standing in the middle of a lake tangled up with a fishing rod, lines and a net, deer come from the bushes to see what he is doing. Process print after John Leech.