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- How a crossbowman should approach animals
How a crossbowman should approach animals by means of a cart concealed with foliage. - Shooting rabbits with the crossbow
Joannes Stradanus, born at Bruges 1536, died at Florence 1605, a Flemish historical painter who delighted in portraying all kinds of sport, such as shooting, hunting, fishing and coursing, which he did with wonderful skill and in most realistic fashion. This picture is reduced from ' Venationes Ferarum,' a work consisting of 105 large plates of sporting scenes, dated 1578. The hunters carry stonebows, and the rabbits are being driven from their burrows by smoke and fire. Purse nets and stop nets may also be seen in use. - Crossbowman approaching game
Crossbowman approaching game by means of a stalkig horse - Crossbowmen killing Deer and Wild Boars
From MS. Gaston Phosbus. Fourteenth century - Hunters with crossbows
- Cat stalking a bird
- Dog chasing a rabbit
- Ostrich
Ostrich "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider."—Job xxxix. 18. - Palæolithic Men Attacking Cave Bear
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