Showing posts with label gun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gun. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Richardson in the Crescent of the White Wolves (1870)

Dora Greenwell, “A Fight with the Frost—IV: Sir John Richardson’s Arctic Explorations,”   The Quiver 5 (1870): 745.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

The Dog on the Grave of His Master in the Louvre (1830)

Le chien sur le tombeau de son maître au Louvre, Dessin à la plume et lavis à l'encre brune sur traits à la mine de plomb, 14.5 x 10.7 cm, (1830), Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE FOL-VE-53 (E).

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Dying Favorite (1858)

“The Dying Favorite,” Drawn by J. Brown. Engraved by A.L. Dick. Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 11 (January 1858): 62.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

In the Great Thirst Land, the Poor Animal Lifted up His Voice so as To Pierce the Air (1900)

Hezekiah Butterworth, Traveller Tales of South Africa or Stories Which Picture Recent History (Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1900), 217.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

At First, I Elected to do the Hunting and Fresh-Meat-Providing (1899)

“The Spell of the Bird: A Strange Tale of British Guiana,” Illustrations by Warwick Goble, The English Illustrated Magazine 22 (October 1899): 27.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

The Rifle Belonging to Hopalong Never Missed—and Besides, He Had Made His Wish (1912)

Clarence Edward Mulford and John Wood Clay, Buck Peters, Ranchman: Being a Story of What Happened When Buck Peters and Hopalong Cassidy, and Their Bar-20 Associates Went to Montana, Illustrations by Maynard Dixon (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1912), 250.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The Cold Blooded Murder Was Noticed by Fifty Persons at Least and There Arose from the Crowd a Universal Cry of Horror and Indignation at the Bloody Deed (1854)

T.B. Thorpe, The Hive of “The Bee Hunter,” a Repository Sketches including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854), 164.
  

Thursday, November 20, 2014

A Man in the Dark Narrow Passage Attempted to Trip Me as I Ran (1905)

William Le Queux, The Cxar’s Spy: A Story of a Matter of Millons, Illustrated by T.H. Robinson (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), frontispiece.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

I Had a Full View of the Race (1883)

Meshach Browning, Forty-four Years of the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach Browning, a Maryland Hunter, Roughly Written Down by Himself , Revised and Illustrated by E. Stabler (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1883), 144.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Love in the Foothills (1908)

W.C. Morrow, “Love in the Foothills,” Success Magazine 11 (September 1908): 560.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

The Combatants Cut and Slashed with Savage Fury (1895)

Howard Pyle, The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes;  being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia; where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands (New York: The Century Company, 1895), 383.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

If You Sound an Alarm I Shall Shoot (1914)

Grant Carpenter, “Tales of Old Chinatown, II. The Boy Girl,” Illustrated by Arthur Cahill, Sunset 33 (November 1914): 939.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

With a Long and Light Spring It Broke Out of the Canes (1874)

Frederick Marryat. The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet: In California, Sonora, and Western Texas (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874), 314.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

By Its Side He Stations Himself, Filling the Air With His Melancholy Lamentation (1876)

Mrs. Hugh Miller.  Stories of  The Dog and His Cousins, the Wolf, the Jackal, and the Hyaena. (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1876).

Monday, January 6, 2014

The Trapper's Christmas Carol (1870)

 "The Trapper's Christmas Carol." Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art. 3 (January 1, 1870).

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Wassailing the Apple Trees in Devonshire (1902)

William Frances Dawson. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries: Depicting, by Pen and Pencil, Memorable Celebrations, Stately Meetings of Early Kings, Remarkable Event, Romantic Episodes, Brave Deeds, Picturesque Customs, Time-honoured Sports, Royal Christmases, Coronations and Royal Marriages, Chivalric Feats, Court Banquetings and Revellings, Christmas at the Colleges and the Inns of Court, Popular Festivities, and Christmas-keeping in Different Parts of the World, Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Arranged Chronologically. (London: Elliot Stock, 1902).