Manuscript kennel book listing "whelps bread" from 1708 to 1727, giving sire, dam, and placement for each. A few pages at the back of the book list hounds given by Orlebar to John Biggs, the Duke of Grafton, and the Earl of Halifax between 1716 and 17...
Description:
Richard Orlebar (1671-1733) attended Trinity College, Oxford and was a member of the Middle Temple and a dedicated hunter. He married the heiress Diana Astry in 1708 and the couple built Hinwick Hall in Bedfordshire between 1709 and 1714. Orlebar serv...
Subject (Geographic):
England, Bedfordshire., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Orlebar, Richard, 1671-1733.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Breeding, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Bedfordshire (England), and Social life and customs
Photographs documenting the life of Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967), members of his family, and associates, ca. 1860-1967. In addition to portraits of Sassoon at various ages from childhood to just before his death, the images consist primarily...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Kent (England), Leicestershire (England), Measham (England), and Weirleigh (England)
Subject (Name):
Beer, Rachel Sassoon, 1858-1927., Champneys, F. W., Mrs., Donaldson, Alyse., Donaldson, Frances Sarah Thornycroft, 1846-1929., Donaldson, Mary., Fenner, Hilda., Francis, John, 1780-1861, Gatty, Stephen Herbert, 1849-1922., Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885, Gosse, Nellie., Hamilton, Nellie Donaldson., Homeward, John., Hyeem, Mozelle Sassoon., Merchant, Bessie., Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938, Perkins, Frances., Ross, Alexander., Sassoon family., Sassoon, Alfred Ezra, 1861-1895., Sassoon, George, 1936-, Sassoon, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, 1853-1947., Sassoon, Hamo Watts, 1887-1915., Sassoon, Hester Gatty., Sassoon, Michael, 1884-1969., Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967., Smith, Patrick MacKenzie., Thornycroft family., Thornycroft, Eldrid., Thornycroft, Helen, 1848-1937., Thornycroft, Joan., Thornycroft, John Isaac, Sir, 1843-1928., Thornycroft, Mary, 1814-1895., Thornycroft, Thomas, 1815-1885., Thornycroft, William Hamo, Sir, 1850-1925., Warren, Edward Perry, 1860-1928., and Royal Northumberland Yacht Club.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments, Statues, Horsemanship, Hunting, Sculptors, and Sculpture
Two men hunt in the field across from a thatched cottage (left) with large tree in it front yard, separated from the road by a rail fence. The hunter on the left has just fired his gun at two birds in flight above right. His companion stands ready wit...
Description:
Titled etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
In a dense forest, two men with hounds rest by a tree; one, standing, holds a rabbit; the other lounges beside the tree under which is their kill of game birds
Description:
Titled etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
Two men armed with guns (right), one standing while the other sits and loads his gun, prepare for a day of hunting with their two dogs. On the left is a cottage beneath a large crag, possibly Creswell Crags, on the edge of the Welbeck Estate, which f...
Description:
Titled etched below image.
Publisher:
[Published] by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
