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Manufacture of fishing equipment. Etching.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 37656i
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A cod fishing fleet off the coast of Iceland. Tinted lithograph by Le Breton.
Reference: 37591i
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A beached basking shark lying next to a fishing trawler. Etching.
Reference: 41687i
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Two otters on a bank, one with a fish and the other fishing. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 39874i
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Sarawak: a Malaysian tribe fishing on the Baram River. Photograph.
Reference: 30479i
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Fisher-folk, night-fishing methods, and other equipment. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 493246i
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Charles Cotton's fishing house on the Dove River, Beresford Dale, Derbyshire: two men fishing from the banks of the river. Engraving after Wilson.
Reference: 34732i
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A fishing boat is out on the water, men on the bank haul in a large fishing net. Engraving by J. Mason after F. Lauri.
Lauri, Filippo, 1623-1694.Date: Feby. 1744Reference: 34820i
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Rotorua, New Zealand: trout fishing. Colour process print print.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 533963i
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A child with a fishing rod, attended by an adult man. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
Tosa, Mitsuoki, 1617-1691.Date: 1894Reference: 728859i
Part of: Japanese courtly recreations, sports and entertainments. Colour lithographs in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.
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Men fishing from the banks of the river and from a bridge spanning the water. Engraving after H. Bol.
Bol, Hans, 1534-1593.Date: [1582]Reference: 34725i
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Sarawak: a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Trusan River. Photograph.
Reference: 31111i
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A river in a rocky landscape, with a man fishing and a woman carrying a basket. Etching by F. Vivares, 1754, after G. Martorelli.
Martorelli, Gaetano, 1670-1723.Date: Jany. 15th. 1754Reference: 2803352i
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A man seated on the bank of a river fishing with a rod. Etching attributed to W.Y. Ottley, 1828, after W. Bemmel, 1654.
Bemmel, Willem van, 1630-1708.Date: [1828]Reference: 2917463i
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A vertical brown stip traversed by a rust-coloured strip in which men are fishing; with a gate and a fence below. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 23/6/55 [23 June 1955]Reference: 2969660i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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Two captured salmon dying on a river bank, an angler fishing in the background. Coloured engraving by W. Backshell after A. D. Cooper.
Cooper, Alexander Davis, active 1830-1888.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 2851801i
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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.
Leloir, Alexandre Louis, 1843-1884.Reference: 35194i
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Women with fishing baskets in Bambara, Sierra Leone. Photograph, c. 1911.
Date: [s.n.]Reference: 29698i
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Two men at sea in a fishing boat: one leans over the side, feeling seasick. Reproduction of a nineteenth century engraving.
Reference: 10755i
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A large family of fisher folk in Naples are gathered together around a fishing boat. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura.
Reference: 30489i
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A young man fishing at the edge of a river or lake, accompanied by a young woman and a child. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after F. Zuccarelli, ca. 1762.
Zuccarelli, Francesco, 1702-1788.Date: 1762Reference: 2475580i
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The public baths and fishing boats, Brighton beach. Line engraving by S. Rawle after J. Nixon.
Nixon, John, -1818.Date: May 1 1803Reference: 15658i
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An ancient city on the banks of a lake, with people fishing in the foreground. Engraving by W. Smith after J. Taylor, 1775.
Taylor, John, 1745?-1806.Date: Oct.r 10, 1775Reference: 2475582i
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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.
Hodgson, J. E. (John Evan), 1831-1895.Date: 1876Reference: 34727i
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Two snakes: a fishing snake and a European smooth snake. Engraving, ca. 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 42045i

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Manufacture of fishing equipment. Etching.

A cod fishing fleet off the coast of Iceland. Tinted lithograph by Le Breton.

A beached basking shark lying next to a fishing trawler. Etching.

Two otters on a bank, one with a fish and the other fishing. Coloured lithograph.

Sarawak: a Malaysian tribe fishing on the Baram River. Photograph.

Fisher-folk, night-fishing methods, and other equipment. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.

Charles Cotton's fishing house on the Dove River, Beresford Dale, Derbyshire: two men fishing from the banks of the river. Engraving after Wilson.

A fishing boat is out on the water, men on the bank haul in a large fishing net. Engraving by J. Mason after F. Lauri.

Rotorua, New Zealand: trout fishing. Colour process print print.

A child with a fishing rod, attended by an adult man. Colour lithograph in the style of Tosa Mitsuoki, 1894.

Men fishing from the banks of the river and from a bridge spanning the water. Engraving after H. Bol.

Sarawak: a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Trusan River. Photograph.

A river in a rocky landscape, with a man fishing and a woman carrying a basket. Etching by F. Vivares, 1754, after G. Martorelli.

A man seated on the bank of a river fishing with a rod. Etching attributed to W.Y. Ottley, 1828, after W. Bemmel, 1654.

A vertical brown stip traversed by a rust-coloured strip in which men are fishing; with a gate and a fence below. Watercolour by N. Goullet, 1955.

Two captured salmon dying on a river bank, an angler fishing in the background. Coloured engraving by W. Backshell after A. D. Cooper.

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.

Women with fishing baskets in Bambara, Sierra Leone. Photograph, c. 1911.

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.

A young man fishing at the edge of a river or lake, accompanied by a young woman and a child. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after F. Zuccarelli, ca. 1762.

The public baths and fishing boats, Brighton beach. Line engraving by S. Rawle after J. Nixon.

An ancient city on the banks of a lake, with people fishing in the foreground. Engraving by W. Smith after J. Taylor, 1775.

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.

Two snakes: a fishing snake and a European smooth snake. Engraving, ca. 1778.