EditorialBear baiting. Real life in London; or, The rambles and adventure. London: printed for Jones & Co., 1822. The Country squire taking a peep at Charley's Theatre Westminster'. A bear being baited with dogs. Image taken from Real life in London; or, The r...
EditorialPsalm 88; bear-baiting. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. (Whole folio) Text, Psalm 88. Marginal decoration, including a grotesque blowing a long trumpet with pennon of the arms of Scrope. In lower margin, a chained bear attacke...
EditorialBear hunting Hunting scenes (series title) In quibus omne genus venationis, aucupij, piscatusque (series title), In the foreground a bear is pierced by the spears of two men. In the background, another bear is caught with a net and killed. With 2 lines...
EditorialBear-baiting. In the lower margin, three men set four dogs on a chained bear, one of which it has seized in its forepaws. The keeper of the bear, with stick and long club, supervises the fight. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335....
EditorialThe title of this map of London appears at the top of the plate, flanked by Tudor and city arms. A note on the history of London features at bottom left and on the Steelyard at bottom right. Illustrated figures of merchants appear at bottom centre. Mer...
EditorialPsalm 88; bear-baiting. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. (Whole folio) Text, Psalm 88. Marginal decoration, including a grotesque blowing a long trumpet with pennon of the arms of Scrope. In lower margin, a chained bear attacke...
EditorialBear baiting. Real life in London; or, The rambles and adventure. London: printed for Jones & Co., 1822. The Country squire taking a peep at Charley's Theatre Westminster'. A bear being baited with dogs. Image taken from Real life in London; or, The r...
EditorialFashionable dandies watching bear-baiting and dog-fighting. Dick and Squire Jenkins enjoying the Sport at les Combats des Animaux (now Place du Colonel Fabien), or the Parisian Duck Lane (i.e., Westminster Pit). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Ge...