Featured on PDR in the collection William Baillie-Grohman’s Sport in Art (1913)

So explains William Baillie-Grohman (1851–1921) in the preface to his 1913 book Sport in Art: An Iconography of Sport, which includes a grand total of 243 illustrations — two in colour, the rest in black-and-white. A warning for tender-hearted readers: here “sport” means the pursuit and killing of animals, though this encyclopedic tome enfolds other topics too. You will learn, for instance, what jolly song was sung while the seventeenth-century Duke of Coburg used his “waidblatt” (game knife) to spank the buttocks of an etiquette-lacking huntsman, laid across the corpse of a stag: “Jo, Jo, ha, ho ! this is for the King, princes and lords!”