Description

Summary: engraving, engraved by H Adlard, for the Diary of Peter Hawker, showing gun-punting, 'Commencement of a Cripple-Chase', published by Longman 1844

Identification note: On some shoots, pounds of shot would be fired into flocks of wildfowl. The injured birds would then be chased and captured by boatmen or their dogs – known as the cripple chase. Engraving produced by H Adlard for Col Hawker’s diary.