212 ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS 



Van der Meer, Molyn, De Neve, Kysbrask, Smees, 

 Verschuring, and others, are all artists in whose works 

 there will be found something relative to the art of rod- 

 fishing. These artists' productions are in a large collection 

 in the British Museum. In volume seventeen, the sketches 

 Nos. 12, 20, 37, and 40, are fair specimens of the mode in 

 which angling topics are treated by this school of artists. 



The engravings of Wouvermens are very numerous, and 

 very splendid. There are many of them in which angling 

 is represented. The most striking of these are " La Grotto 

 de 1'Abrenvoir," " The Passage of the Waters," and " The 

 Fisher's Bark." 



Tenier's engravings of angling are very interesting ones. 

 In " Les Pecheurs Flamands," which embrace five prints, 

 there are some exquisite representations of the gentle craft. 

 In one of his productions, depicting his own house, he re- 

 presents a youthful angler with rod and line, fishing in 

 the neighbouring stream. 



During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there 

 were several series of prints published at Paris, representing 

 angling, but in the spirit of political caricature and double 

 entendre allusions. Some of these prints were good por- 

 traits of the most noted ladies of the French Court, who 

 were exhibited in the act of fishing in some cool and well- 

 shaded stream, or romantic water-falls. There are a num- 

 ber of fine engravings, coloured, of the same class published 

 *n Paris at the present moment, 1854, which display the 

 most exquisite humour and artistic skill. 



