EditorialIce view near a city, Ice entertainment and fishermen on frozen water near a city. Figures of wood gather in the foreground. Print on top left marked: XIV., Winter landscape, landscape symbolizing winter (the four seasons of the year), skates (winter s...
EditorialCome with three women at a well and a plowing company, Bowl of earthenware with a liquid blue transfer decor. On the outside of the wall three women at a water well and a man, a woman and a child in a field with a plow. On the inside of the bowl flower...
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...
EditorialCaptain's Boyton's voyage - a cigar in mid-channel'. Paul Boyton (1848— 1924), known as the Fearless Frogman, was a showman and adventurer some credit as having spurred worldwide interest in water sports as a hobby, particularly open-water swimmin...
EditorialBoy on rolling trestle with spear tilting at a fixed quintain (top), soldier in armour attacking a pel quintain (left) and a saracen quintain (right), and naked boys attacking a water-tub quintain (bottom), 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Jose...
EditorialBoy with lance on a boat rowed by other boys tilting at a water quintain, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialRegency water sports and an accident on the Thames near Richmond. An overloaded boat hits a barge on the river, while university rowers and yachts go by. The Marigold Family on a Party of Pleasure, or effect of a Storm in the little Bay of Biscay, or C...
EditorialBoy with lance tilting at a moveable quintain operated by another boy (top), boy with lance tilting at a living quintain (trying to knock a man in armour with a shield off a stool), and boy being rowed to tilt against a quintain on water (bottom), 14th...
EditorialIN THE MALDIVE ISLANDS, INDIAN OCEAN, 1881: 1. A Street in Male Island. 2. The Arena Where Sports are Held. 3. Ibrahim Didi. 4. The Harbour, North Side Male Island. 5. The Sultan's Palace, Male Islarid. 6. A Portion of the Chief Mosque and Tower, where...
EditorialTilting at a ring under a basin of water, jeu de bague or jeu du baquet. Popular game at village festivals. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.