EditorialNobles and ladies on horseback hawking with falcons, while the falconer frightens birds at the river edge, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialJousting toys: knights on horseback with helmet, shield and lance, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialMan on horseback with lance tilting at a ring, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialTwo knights jousting with lances in suits of armour, helm, and heraldic colours, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialMummers in odd animal masks and colourful robes, 14th century, dancing to music played by a man on a lute with animal neck. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1...
EditorialA battle with maces, another favourite and bloody sport of medieval knights. Fascinated, the ladies watch from a covered, two-storied waggon. Mural from the armoury, Runkelstein castle, from the series of murals showing courtlife, sports and pastimes a...
EditorialUpper illustration, men on horseback hawking. Lower illustration, ladies hawking. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles...
EditorialSaxon hawking. This engraving shows a Saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks, by the bank of a river, waiting for the rising of the game. The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations may gam...