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Print collector's quarterly — 12.1925

DOI issue:
Quarterly notes - Vol. xii, No. 2. April, 1925
DOI article:
Sparrow, Walter Shaw: Angling prints and research
DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.51531#0239

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have been associated with country life and its active
pastimes. Any art which has its evolution within a
nation’s favourite recreations is likely to be permanent,
because a nation’s character alters but little, particularly
in its attitude towards outdoor amusements.
If you choose angling prints for your hobby, two
questions have to be answered before you make a start.
Is it to be fresh-water fishing alone, with rod and line,
with nets of different sorts, and with spears having a
varying number of prongs ? Or is angling in the sea
from piers, together with other marine fishing, to be
included ? Many British pictures and prints are active
with sea fishing, and I believe it is better to keep them
apart from other fishing, because they belong to the
general history of European marine prints, a very big
subject that needs its own collectors.
Though our country has always been The Lady of
the Sea, as old Camden saith, somehow her marine
painters and engravers have been few in number and
not very popular, except in occasional prints of British
naval victories. Even pictures of the sea-shore, as in
William Collins and J. C. Hook, both anglers, have lost
their vogue more rapidly than many other landscapes,
as though the seaside to our citizenship were mainly
a diversion for summer holidays.
Fresh-water fishing, considered in its relations to art,
should be classified under seven headings : (1) land-
scapes ; (2) portraiture ; (3) boudoir romance and
genre ; (4) humour and caricature, including political
cartoons ; (5) prints that belong to the history of
angling, but that contain no anglers, like the fine etchings
made for an edition of “ The Compleat Angler,” by
Cameron and Strang ; (6) still life ; (7) prints that

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