NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 267 



XV. A German Falconer of the Sixteenth 

 Century. From a scarce engraving by an artist 

 whose name has not been ascertained. 



No copy of this is to be found amongst the large collection of 

 prints in the British Museum, although from the serial number 

 in the left-hand corner, and the word " Aer" in the top right- 

 hand corner, suggestive of its being one of a set of emblems, 

 there ought to be no difficulty in identifying it. The drawing 

 is particularly good, and the treatment very artistic. 



For other figures of German falconers the reader should turn 

 to the fine engravings of Ridinger, already noticed (p. 51), and 

 to those of Hans Burgkmair which illustrate the life of Maxi- 

 milian I. in Der Weiss Kotiig^ 15 14, reprinted at Vienna in 1775. 

 In one of these plates. No. 34 of the series, the Emperor is 

 represented Heron-hawking. Attended by mounted falconers, 

 he is seated on horseback, in the act of unhooding his falcon at 

 a heron, at which other hawks have already been flown. 



XVI. A French Falconer of the Eighteenth 

 Century, in the Uniform of the Court of Louis XV., 



1715-1774. 



Furnished by Monsieur P. A. Pichot " d'aprbs les figurines 

 decoupeesde P. Lesueur, appartenant k M. Bidault de L'Isle." 



For some account of Falconry in France during the reign of 

 Louis XV. the reader may be referred to the works of Bois- 

 soudan (No. 202), Baron Dunoyer de Noirmont (No. 206), 

 vol. iii. pp. 107-109, and D'Aubusson (No. 211), p. 207. The 

 Grand Falconer in this reign was the Due de la Valliere, who 

 had a salary of 4200 livres. The under falconers were paid 

 on a proportionately liberal scale, and the annual expenditure 

 for salaries, purchase of hawks, and cost of maintenance amounted 

 to 24,190 livres fran^ais, or nearly ^^20,000 (D'Aubusson,/.^.) 



The palmy days of Falconry in France terminated with the 

 Revolution in 1792. The sport was revived for a short period 

 by Napoleon, who, in 18 10, sent for the Dutch Falconers 

 Daams and Daankers with four assistants, and maintained a 

 hawking establishment at Versailles until 1813, when the French 



