A man on horseback and a boy with hawks on their wrists. Etching.

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A man on horseback and a boy with hawks on their wrists. Etching. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"This engraving represents a Saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks, upon the bank of a river, waiting for the rising of the game. The delineation is from a Saxon manuscript written at the close of the ninth century, or at the commencement of the tenth ; in the Cotton Library (Tiberius C.vi)"—Strutt, loc. cit.

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1 print : etching ; image 6.5 x 18.5 cm

Lettering

Hawking. Pl. III.

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Joseph Strutt, Sports and pastimes of the people of England, London: T. Tegg, 1831, p. 29

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Wellcome Collection 34348i

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