Another Fine Quality Print from Martin2001
  Falconry Hunting



Print  Specifics:
  • Type of print: Copperplate engraving - An original Leaf from "Encyclopedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts."
  • Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1763
  • Editor: Denis Diderot
  • Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
  • Overall Dimensions: 9.5 x 15.5 inches (24 x 39 cm), including blank margins around the group of images.
  • Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin).
  • Reverse side: Blank
  • Notes: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. Print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print.
  • Partial Legend (machine translated from French, no editing):
The vignette represents the courtyard of the adjoining garden the falconer's accommodation: you can see from both sides a covered gallery, under which the birds are perched. Fig. 1. Falconer who carries the cage, by means of two straps which pass over his shoulders: it is on the edges of this cage that we carry buckets at the hunting rendezvous.  2. Row of lawns where birds are placed in good weather.
3. Pole raised four feet, with which one place the birds on this pole hangs a canvas two feet wide.

 Fig. 2 (bottom) Hood or bonnet of the bird, topped with a plumage aigrette. A, the hood seen from the front, from the side of the opening through which the bird's beak passes. B, chaperone goes from behind to the side where the cords, by means of which the hood is tightened on the neck of the bird, after the head has entered it.
 
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