« The hound some praise and some the Hawk:
Some better pleased with private sport, Use tennis some a Mistress court:
But these delights I neither wish Nor envy while I freely fish. »
William Andrew Chatto, The Angler’s Souvenir, 1845
Fishing & Angling
in drawings prints and books
- Only light penalties for fish thieves in 1797 :
Publicandum (by the Royal Electoral Marchian War and Domain Chamber)
On behalf of punishing the fish and especially carp thefts from the carp ponds - Pu-Quà. A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Pu-Quà. A Fishmonger
- Pu-Quà. Un Marchand de Poisson
- Pu-Quà. Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Red Sea – Eight Species of Fish in Natural Size
- Revoil, Benedict-Henry. Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord
- The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
Rondonneau, L(ouis). (ed.). Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis (= Istiophorus platyterus)
- Instructive salmon catching on the Rhine
Salmon Catching between Basle and Rheinfelden
and a topical selection within the listing
„ nachdem die wunderbare Stangenabwurf-Folge (Wintter’s Aufsezen oder wachstum des Hirschgeweihes hiesiger Lieferung) nun meine Wand ziert, habe ich zwei (Desiderata-)Bitten an Sie. Es fehlt mir … Können Sie mir behilflich sein? “
(Herr C. R., 28. Januar 2015)