boar spear

boar spear is a pike.

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Catalogued works

8 works under this name are catalogued by Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1600 to 1822.

A man on horseback running a spear into a wild boar. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist., dated [between 1800 and 1899?], held by Wellcome Collection. A man with a spear and a pack of dogs attack a wild boar emerging from the reeds in the swamps. Etching., held by Wellcome Collection. The hunting of the Calydonian wild boar. Etching after Sir P.P. Rubens., dated [between 1600 and 1699], held by Wellcome Collection. The hunting of the Calydonian wild boar. Engraving by F. Lamb, 1822, after Sir P.P. Rubens., dated August 1 1822, held by Wellcome Collection. Two men carrying spears and a hunting horn in their pursuit of boar. Etching., held by Wellcome Collection. Two armour-clad hunting dogs resting next to a speared wild boar in a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger., held by Wellcome Collection. A tumultuous hunting scene in which a stag is hunted into the river and speared, and a wild boar is shot while trying to escape from the hounds. Etching by A. Tempesta., held by Wellcome Collection. Detail of a frieze decorating a Greek black-figured column krater representing a group of naked men with spears and dogs hunting a wild boar; principal scene of the "Hunt krater", made in Corinth ca. 570 B.C.. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?)., dated 1760-1769, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 10 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

2 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

boar-spear, The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language, 2023. Spearheads of boar-spear and peaks from the collection of the Nizhniy Novgorod State historical and architectural museum-park, Universum Humanitarium, 2022.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 13 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1600The hunting of the Calydonian wild boar. Etching after Sir P.P. Rubens. (Wellcome Collection).
  2. 1800A man on horseback running a spear into a wild boar. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist. (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1822The hunting of the Calydonian wild boar. Engraving by F. Lamb, 1822, after Sir P.P. Rubens. (Wellcome Collection).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    boar-spear, The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language, 2023

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Spearheads of boar-spear and peaks from the collection of the Nizhniy Novgorod State historical and architectural museum-park, Universum Humanitarium, 2022

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 10 works naming boar spear.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  4. 4.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1362614: boar spear

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  5. 5.

    “Boar spear”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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Plates

Each plate is reproduced under the terms the holding register itself publishes, with its creator and licence named.

Boar spear head ( Saufeder ) attributed to Frederick IV, Duke of Further of Austria, also known as Frederick of the Empty Pockets (1382 - 1439).

Boar spear head ( Saufeder ) attributed to Frederick IV, Duke of Further of Austria, also known as Frederick of the Empty Pockets (1382 - 1439).

Unknown, Southern Germany, c. 1430. · CC BY 3.0

The picture record
Hunter with boar spear (German: "Saufeder") during a driven hunt in Skane, Sweden

Hunter with boar spear (German: "Saufeder") during a driven hunt in Skane, Sweden

Mikael Tham · YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpvpSGzKBVE – View/save archived versions on archive.org · CC BY 3.0

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