18th Century Angling

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Last updated: Jan 03, 2026

This collection of links focuses on angling – that is, fishing with a rod and a line. (Commercial fishing may be dealt with in a later notebook page.) This includes sport fishing and leisure fishing. A page elsewhere on this site deals with fishing and fishermen from the 9th-17th centuries.

• 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, a Corner Shop in Crooked Lane, London. Make and Sell all Sorts of the best Fishing Tackle, for Use of Sea or River; &c as Artificial Flies, Hooks, Rods, Landing Nets, and Lines of every Size & Goodneſs, with Silk-Worms, Gut & Indian Weed, &c. Wholesale & Retale N.B. All Sorts of Sail, Needles & Palmes.
• 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
• A Boy Angling
• Draft trade card for Jonathan and William Scambler, Needle & Fish Hook Manufacturers, 7 Exeter Row, Birmingham
• The young angler by Henry Walton