Prey Collection (page 2)

Hawking scenes, 9th and 14th century
Hawking scenes: Saxon noble and falconer from the 9th century (middle), and ladies and men hawking with falcons and prey from the 14th century (top, bottom)

Lion, Panthera leo, hunting an antilope. Vulnerable
Lion, Panthera leo, hunting an antilope while a female lion watches. Vulnerable.Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Susemihl from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d

Harvest mouse, Micromys minutus (Mus messorius), with worm. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Dorcas gazelle running from a cheetah
Dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas (vulnerable), running from a cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus (vulnerable). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Africans hunting warthog, zebra and jackal
Hunters in Africa hunting warthog, Phacochoerus africanus, zebra, Equus quagga, and black-backed jackal, Canis mesomelas, with gun, spear and bow and arrow

Cheetah hunting gazelle and impala
Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus, (vulnerable) and its prey, dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas (vulnerable) and black-faced impala, Aepyceros melampus. Europeans hunting cheetahs in Africa

Red legged falcon, Erythropus vespertinus (orange legged hobby, Falco rufipes). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849

White-tailed sea eagle, water spider, Purpuricenus
White-tailed sea eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla 5, and prey, water spider, Argyroneta aquatica 1, Purpuricenus beetles 2.3, and Pycnogonum litorale sea spider 4

Foxs adventures with verses inside a Christmas card
Foxs adventures with a crow, geese and a rabbit inside a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

A Royal Chase - their Majesties stag hunting. 1780

Keystone K-78 Patrician - NX7962
Keystone K-78 Patrician NX7962. The Patrician was a 21 seat tri-motor airliner. Only one K78 and two K-78D Patricians were built, production plans falling prey to the Great Depression

Illustration, White-Ear at night with his prey. Date: 1912

Whalers in Pursuit Date: 1948

Puppy abducted by eagle in Valle Brembana, San Gallo, Italy
Puppy abducted by eagle in Valle Brembana, San Gallo, north-east of Milan, Italy. Fortunately the puppy struggled and the eagle had to drop it from a height of 30 metres - the dog had a soft landing

ELEGANT SHOOTING LADY
A bird of prey sets out knowing that she is immaculately dressed for the part. Date: 1931

WILD CAT AND PREY
(FELIS SILVESTRIS)...with its prey, a bird Date: 1898

Marriageable man
The Marriageable Man - one daughter sings, another sighs, while their mother hovers over her prey to make sure this eligible suitor is firmly hooked to one or the other Date: 1842

ALBERT AS SPORTSMAN 1845
" SPORT!" or " A BATTUE MADE EASY" Prince Albert depicted as the phoney sportsman hunting from his armchair. Date: 1819-1861

Hawk on a pine tree by Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795). Date: circa 1770s

Clemenceau as a tiger, mauling Germany, an eagle
Cartoon on the cover of La Baionnette depicting the French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau, as a tiger and Germany, an eagle, as his prey

Medieval hunting scene -- a man and a woman on horseback, with birds of prey and dogs. Date: early 20th century

Snowy Owl - Eye - juvenile - a fledgling (Nyctea scandiaca). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Komodo Dragon - X3 Eating
KOMODO DRAGON - X3 EATING (Varanus komodoensis)

Philippine Tarsier with a butterfly (Tarsius syrichta). in undergrowth of a dense secondary tropical rainforest near PTFI (Philippine Tarsier Foundation Incorporated)

The Ambuscade
Plate 19 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1875

WW1 - Cartoon - As the eagle flies
WW1 - A cartoon personifying the German enemy as vultures. It waits on post to either prey on the crow or eagle. Date: 1914

Martial Eagle - attacking White Stork - the fight lasted more than an hour but finally the Eagle was victorious (Polemaetus bellicosus)

Leopard - in a tree looking for prey (Panthera pardus). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania - Africa

Peregrine Falcon - adult warms a chick after feeding him in the nest (a single chick because of the bad year due to the lack of lemmings as food, a natural fluctuation), (Falco peregrinus)

Common Wonder Gecko / Frog-eyed Gecko - looks for prey under a bush in sand dunes - licks his eye to prevent it from drying - feeds mostly on insects (Teratoscincus scincus)

A Medieval nightmare
This hand coloured woodcut showing a human headed bird grappling a man is from Jacobus Meydenbacks Hortus Sanitatis, (1491)

Tyto alba, barn owl
A mounted specimen of a barn owl (Tyto alba). Barn owls are well distributed in Europe, South America, U.S.A, Africa and Australia. There are 35 subspecies

Buzzard in the late afternoon light
A Buzzard visible only as a white silhouette flies up over a broken wooden fence on the lower levels of a hilly countryside scene. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) a large bird of prey and the national bird and symbol of the United States of America. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

A Buzzard on a broken branch
A Buzzard (Buteo buteo) on a broken branch. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Peregrine Falcon on a rock
A Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) perched on a rock. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Buzzard and countryside landscape
A Buzzard visible only as a white silhouette flies up over a broken wooden fence on the lower levels of a hilly countryside scene

A Sea Bass catching whitebait
A superb painting by Malcolm Greensmith of a Sea Bass, wheeling to catch a whitebait, its spiney dorsal fin raised in agressive pose

Arab Sheikh with his Falcon, Kuwait

Grey Cat Ready to Pounce
A grey cat stares intensely at its intended prey

Mouse (Bewick)
mus musculus - COMMON MOUSE terror of housemaids, target of mousetrap-makers, prey of cats and farmers wives - but we all have a sneaking fond- ness for this cute creature

WW2 Humour - Desert lion frustrated his meat is in cans
WW2 Humour - A desert lion frustrated that any meat which comes his way these days is in cans !!! Date: circa 1942

Bird life in Salonika: officer and golden eagle
This magnificent golden eagle belongs to an officer on the Balkan front, and is so tame that strangers can handle him. When first caught he was only just fledged, a mere ball of fluffy feathers

An eagle on a branch. 1907

Two birds of prey sitting on branches. 1907

Fantastic Adventures - Return of Sinbad by Chester S. Geier. A man in Arabian dress flies in space on a giant bird of prey. The distressed bird is being attacked by the lasers of several spaceships

Falconry in the time of King Francois I of France
Falconer of the royal household at the time of King Francois I of France. 16th century

Comedies, 1518 by Titus Maccius Plautus. Title cover
Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184). Latin playwright. Title cover of his Comedies, 1518. Library University of Barcelona. Spain

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