Image: Three panel-hawking

Description: Three panels depicting Hawking in England from various time periods. The middle panel is from a Saxon manuscript dated to late 900s - early 1000s, as of 1801 held in the "Cotton Library," showing a Saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks upon the banks of a river, waiting for the rise of the game. The top and bottom panels are drawings from a manuscript held, as of 1801, in the "Royal Library" dating from early 1300s showing parties of both sexes hawking by the waterside; the falconer is frightening the fowl to make them rise and the and the hawk is in the act of seizing upon one of them.
Title: Three panel-hawking
Credit: Joseph Strutt's 1801 book, The sports and pastimes of the people of England from the earliest period (panels and description appear at page 24 therein)
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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