Rock-fowlers hunting for skua gull birds and eggs on the Faroe Islands, 18th century

Rock-fowlers hunting for skua gull birds and eggs on the Faroe Islands, 18th century. Men climb the cliffs using ropes and long sticks, hunting birds and nests to throw down to boats below. From Danish writer Lucas Jacobson’s History of the Faroe Islands. Taking sea fowl. Great skua, Stercorarius skua. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.