BowlkersArtofAnglingFrontpiece Mayflies

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Description: English: Mayfly fishing flies, from Charles and Richard Bowlker's Art of Angling, 1854. 2. Blue Dun. 3. March Brown (Rhithrogena germanica). Date: 1854. Source: https://archive.org/details/bowlkersartofang00bowlrich. Author: Charles Bowlker; Richard Bowlker. Cropped from the named public domain book at Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/bowlkersartofang00bowlrich, colours restored, contrast enhanced. Charles Bowlker died in 1779; Richard Bowlker was his father. Licensing[edit] This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse. : This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.