Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, The Browne Family, ca. 1778, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.675.
18th Century Angling
This collection of links focuses on angling – that is, fishing with a rod and a line. This includes sport fishing and leisure fishing.
A page on the old site focuses on fishing and fishermen from the 9th-17th centuries.
Additional Resources
Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler; online editions from 1653 and 1759
Roach-Fishing, If you would catch a great Number [of Pope], If you would Angle for Salmon at Ground, Pearch-Fishing, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum, & Botanicum (1726)
The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: With the Natural Hiſtory of River, Pond, and Sea-Fish (1740)
Of Fiſhing for Trout, &c., Agriculture Improv’d: or, the Practice of Husbandry Display’d (1746)
Of Angling, The Complete Sportſman; or Country Gentleman’s Recreation (1764)
The True Art of Angling (1770)
The Art of Angling (1793)
Angling, The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, the Gentleman’s Companion for Town and Country (1800)
A Woodsrunner’s Diary: 18th Century Fishing
Recreational Fishing in England and America, Part 1 and Part 2
Landscape with a fishing scene, early 18th century
John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children by William Hogarth, 1730
A fishing party by William Hogarth, c. 1730-1731
Water, c. 1730s-1742
The Brockman family at Beachborough by Edward Haytley, c. 1744-1746
August, 1745
The Russell and Revett families with fishing rods and game by Charles Philips
The North West View of Gainsborough, 1747
Portrait of a family, traditionally known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire by Arthur Devis, 1749
Portrait of an unknown boy fishing, possibly Christopher Lethieullier by Arthur Devis, 1749
The Young Waltonian by Arthur Devis, c. 1750
View of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, View of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Clopton Bridge, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire c. 1750
Francis Popham of Littlecote (?), c. 1750-1760
Richard Moreton, Esq. of Tackley with his nephew and niece John and Susanna Weyland by Arthur Devis, 1757
Four youths fishing by Paul Sandby
Trade card for Mary Knight & Son, Fiſh Hook Makers At the Old Compleat Angler, c. 1760
Charles Strickland by George Romney
Trade card for Henry Stone and Charles Iverson, fishing tackle manufacturers, c. 1760 (and a later trade card, c. 1775)
Landscape with man carrying a fishing rod and conversing with a woman seated on a rock by Jean Georges Wille, 1760
River View, on the Arno (?) by Richard Wilson, c. 1760
The Garden at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick taking tea by Johann Zoffany, 1762
Rural Delights / Les Plaisirs Champetres, c. 1760s
Shepherd and Shepherdess, Angling, Landskip, &c., c. 1760-1775
Straphon & Chloe, c. 1760-1794
Le plaisir de la pêche, c. 1764
A Summer Evening by Richard Wilson, 1764
Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle by Richard Wilson, c. 1765-1767
August, 1767
The Lavie Children by Johann Zoffany, c. 1770
View of the Koepoort in Leiden by Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, c. 1770
Landscape with a group of figures fishing by Giuseppe Zais, c. 1770-1780
James Sayer, 1772
Landscape with a fishing party by a waterfall by George Mullins, 1772
A landscape at sunset by Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1773
An Angling Party by Edward Smith, 1773
The Anglers, 1774
The Fishermen, 1774
The Browne Family by Francis Wheatley, c. 1778
View of Carlisle, 1780
The Pretty Waterwoman, or Admiral Purblind just run aground by Peggy Pullaway, 1780
View in Wales, Tintern, 1780
Trade card of Iverson and Stone, fishing tackle manufacturers, c. 1780
August, 1781
Angling, 1781
The Angelic Angler, 1781
A man holding a basket and fishing rod, c. 1782-1803
A Party Angling by George Morland, 1789
Amusement, 1789
Illustration of a man angling on a rocky shore from The Looking Glass for the Mind, 1792
William Paley M.A. Archdeacon of Carlisle, 1792
Trade card of Iverson and Stone, fishing tackle manufacturers, 1792
Woodlands, the seat of W. Hamilton, Esq. from the Bridge at Gray’s Ferry by James Malcolm Peller, c. 1792-1794
Gentlemen Fishing by Benjamin West, 1794
Spring, 1796
Fly-fishing by Samuel Howitt, 1798
Worm-fishing, 1799
Fishing couple, late 18th century
Het meest, ô Jeugdt! dat gy hier ziet, Is Kinderſpel
Landscape with figures in the foreground and a man fishing, c. 1800
Derby from Chester Close, c. 1800
Draft trade card for Jonathan and William Scambler, Needle & Fish Hook Manufacturers, 7 Exeter Row, Birmingham
The young angler by Henry Walton
Draft trade card of Mary Knight and Son, fishing tackle manufacturers, c. 1760.
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