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The High Mettled Racer, 1789. Artist: Thomas RowlandsonThe High Mettled Racer, 1789. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Detail of bear-hunt from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, 15th centuryDetail of bear-hunt from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, made in Tournai, currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 15th century
Achaemenid cylinder-seal impression of a Royal hunt. The King holds a Gon and a man with a flail seizes a bull. It symbolises the the triumph of the King over his enemies
Bear Garden, Southwark, London, after its third rebuilding, 1648. By this time plays and prize-fighting had been added to the original entertainment of bear baiting
Bear Garden, Southwark, London, 1574. Bear-baiting was a popular form of public entertainment. Woodcut based on a detail from Cornelis de Visschers print of London
The Cock Pit, c1840. Artist: George PresburyThe Cock Pit, c1840. Cockfighting enthusiasts from a cross-section of society gamble and squabble. The blind Lord Albermarle Bertie (centre)
A Plantagenet king of England out hunting. The king depicted is possibly King John (1167-1216). Chromolithograph after a medieval manuscript
Elizabeth I performing the ceremony of assaying the stag, 1576. Elizabeth (1533-1603) alights from her horse onto the hunting field to perform the ceremony and is handed the knife by the huntsman
Combat between a lion and a bull, Spain, 1894. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 30th December 1894
Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark (right) and the Bear Garden, c1597 (1825)Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark (right) and the Bear Garden c1599 (1825). The Globe Theatre was opened in 1599 and is associated with performances of Shakespeares plays
Napoleon at a Hunt in the Compiegne Forest, 1811. Artist: Carle VernetNapoleon at a Hunt in the Compiegne Forest, 1811. Detail. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg
Plate 8 from the Tauromaquia : A moor caught by the bull in the ring, ca. 1816
