Two men carrying spears and a hunting horn in their pursuit of boar. Etching.

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Two men carrying spears and a hunting horn in their pursuit of boar. Etching. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"The above engraving represents a Saxon chieftain, attended by his huntsman and a couple of hounds, pursuing the wild swine in a forest, taken from a manuscriptal painting of the ninth century in the Cotton Library (Tiberius.B.5)"--Strutt, loc. cit.

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1 print : etching ; image 6.5 x 18.8 cm

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Hunting. Pl. I.

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Joseph Strutt, Sports and pastimes of the people of England, London: T. Tegg, 1831, p. 5

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Wellcome Collection 34346i

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