EditorialOrigin of the harpoons or banderillas, plate 7 of 'The Art of Bullfighting' - 1815/16 - 24,7x35,7 cm - etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint.
EditorialHarpoons of deer antler for hunting small whales and seals. 6500-4000 BC. From Zealand coasts and fjords of Eastern Jutland. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark.
EditorialThe Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 11, 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat.', William Blake, 17571827, British, between 1797 and 1798, Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid le...
EditorialBottom Fishing Near Totten Mill, Robert Pollard, 17551838, British, And James Pollard, 17921867, British, undated, Graphite and pen and brown ink on blued white, medium, moderately textured, wove paper, Sheet: 4 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (10.8 x 32.7 cm), ba...
EditorialInuit (Eskimo) men in fishing boats hunting whales with harpoons at sea, and others on the ice hunting seals and fish with spears. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Roberto Freschi from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peopl...
EditorialCup with a whaling scene, Porcelain cup painted on the glaze in blue, red, yellow, black and gold. On the outside wall a representation of whale hunting with a sloop with three men, one of which is firing on a polar bear, in addition, two sloops with c...
EditorialChalice with the three-master Propatria, Conical foot. Straight trunk with a double white spiral. Funnel-shaped chalice rounded at the bottom. On the bowl a three-masted anchor with the name PROPATRIA. Two rowing boats are whaling alongside the ship wi...
EditorialMan dressed in fur and warming himself by a coal fire Title page for: P.M. de la Martini?re, De noordsche weereld, 1685, Man dressed in fur coats himself by a coal fire. He holds two harpoons under his arm. Around the man a walrus and bear, both with c...
EditorialFishing by night Description of the gold coasts of Guinea (series title), At night fishing with nets and traps. The fishermen are in the water or are in a canoe. Some carry a torch. A fire has been lit in the front left of the boat. The fishermen are i...
EditorialOrigin of the harpoons or banderillas, plate seven from The Art of Bullfighting. Francisco Jos? de Goya y Lucientes; Spanish, 1746-1828. Date: 1813-1816. Dimensions: 201 x 315 mm (image); 245 x 352 mm (plate); 320 x 445 mm (sheet). Etching, burnished a...