Antique Print of a Lincolnshire Duck Decoy Made after Lubbock 'c.1860'

€ 200

One of a kind: this is the sheet in the photographs. Ships from Langweer, the Netherlands.

Date: 1860
Sheet size: 24 × 30 cm (9.4 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Fair
Reference: BG-12678-125

Condition

General age-related toning, shows some wear/creasing and foxing. Blank verso. Plaese study image carefully.

About this sheet

Antique print titled 'A Lincolnshire Decoy'. Original antique print of a Lincolnshire Duck Decoy. Wild duck decoyed into mouth of net covering curving ditch or 'pipe'. Dog trained to drive birds to narrow end where the birds were caught and killed. Common practice on the Cambridgeshire Fens and Norfolk Broads. Most birds were sent to the London market. Made after W. Lubbock, published circa 1860.