A man on horseback and a boy with hawks on their wrists. Etching.

"This engraving represents a Saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks, upon the bank of a river, waiting for the rising of the game. The delineation is from a Saxon manuscript written at the close of the ninth century, or at the commencement of the tenth ; in the Cotton Library (Tiberius C.vi)"—Strutt, loc. cit.