Leaving no Tracks By Robert Griffing.

Leaving no Tracks By Robert Griffing.

https://lordnelsons.com/gallery/frontier/griffing/107LeavingNoTracks.htm

New Frontier Art Painting/Prints

Hunting Partners By David Wright.

Misty Crossing By David Wright.

Available from: https://lordnelsons.com/gallery/Originals/Originals_MainHMTA2020index.htm;

Something Splashing This Way Comes by John Buxton

Something Splashing This Way Comes by John Buxton

https://lordnelsons.com/gallery/frontier/buxton/66SomethingSplashing.htm

"Wolves of the Mohawk Valley" By DON TROIANI

"Wolves of the Mohawk Valley" By DON TROIANI

http://www.dontroiani.com/commissions.shtml;

ROBERT GRIFFING, Picking Clams on French Creek.

The Cherokee by Robert Griffing

"Respect for the Ancient Ones" By Robert Griffing.

"Respect for the Ancient Ones" By Robert Griffing.

https://lordnelsons.com/;

Frontier Art By David Wright.

Unnoticed Observers By David Wright.

https://lordnelsons.com/

Wonderful Expert By Robert Griffing.

https://lordnelsons.com/

Join Us Brother By John Buxton.

https://lordnelsons.com/

Rock Shelter By John Buxton.

Available now from: https://lordnelsons.com/

He Said it was General Braddock's White Horse by Robert Griffing

He Said it was General Braddock's White Horse
by Robert Griffing.

https://lordnelsons.com/gallery/Originals/RGGenBraddocksWhiteHorse30x40.htm;

These 18th-Century Paintings of Interracial Mexican Families Are Based on a Lie.

Miguel Cabrera, De español y negra, mulata (From male Spaniard and Black Female, Mulata), c. 1763. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-18th-century-paintings-interracial-mexican-families-based-lie

Frontier Art By David Wright. Beneath The Silent Canopy.

Beneath the Silent Canopy By David Wright.

www.lordnelsons.com

Tight Spot by David Wright

Frontier Art By John Buxton. Almost Quiet.

Almost Quiet By John Buxton.

Frontier Art. Almost Quiet By John Buxton

Almost Quiet By John Buxton.

http://www.lordnelsons.com/welcome.htm

18th Century Angling. Hand lines & fishing poles.

Below: 17th & 18th century Fishing poles with fixed lines.

You will note that these fixed lines were often very short, the pole being used to drop the line away from the bank.

Below: Hand lines tied on bush poles 19th century.

Below:18th Century hand lines.

Hand Line Fishing 17th & 18th Century.

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qyYRbGzqn08C&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=hand+line+fishing+18th+century&source=bl&ots=ej8QrPLFNG&sig=rXsDg2aL77LGnS7Nsqpypal9kmA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja87LDj9HYAhUMt1MKHcNnCU8Q6AEIZjAO#v=onepage&q=hand%20line%20fishing%2018th%20century&f=false

http://www.historicanglingenterprises.com/

http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/canp1/ca03beng.shtml

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wkd3JHwDnKgC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=fixed+line+fishing+in+the+18th+century&source=bl&ots=13KVZeLjAT&sig=jHys4yZEqPw7V0R2j37I-DW71A8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEjZ3is9HYAhXCuVMKHfYLC-UQ6AEIYTAL#v=onepage&q=fixed%20line%20fishing%20in%20the%2018th%20century&f=false

ISLAND CARIB FISHING TECHNIQUES6 French observers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including some excellent anglers, unanimously admired the fishing skills of the Island Caribs. These Indians, who expertly sought out productive banks and deeps (Breton 1665: 131- 132 S.V. chbbi, 355 S.V. minroua), even had a word translatable only as ‘(reproach to a man who does not know how to fish” (Breton 1665: 59 S.V. miticati. oue). Island Caribs frequently fished with handlines from their dugout canoes.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1966.68.6.02a00020/pdf

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/cultureheritage/10131abwfish.pdf

As you can see from above, period paintings of inland fishing always show the use of fixed lines on poles. However, it is evident that there were hand lines in use in the 18th century & earlier, in fact this method is probably one of the oldest methods of fishing. Travellers are not likely to have carried poles with them, these poles with fixed lines were used by city & towns people. Travellers could either use a hand line as is, or they had the option of cutting a pole & tying the hand line to the end of the pole. Hand lines can also be used as fixed lines, hanging from a tree branch & left overnight.

Author's hand lines & spare hooks.

Frontier Art. Time Of The Warrior By Robert Griffing.

Time Of The Warrior By Robert Griffing.

New paintings from David Wright.

Edge of the Old Fields By David Wright.

A Well Deserved repose By David Wright.

http://www.lordnelsons.com/gallery/frontier/wright/wright2.htm