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OLD MASTIFF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS

'CHEVY CHACE' 1825/26, Original by Sir E Lanseer, R. A. Pinxt, Etched by Charles George Lewis

"to drive the deer with hound and horne
Erle Perey took his way
The chiefest harts in Chevy Chase
To kill and bear away"

Engraved for the Woburn Gallery, the original picture is at Woburn, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House in 1826, and the British Justitation in 1827. The sketch was sold at the Artist's sale, lot 119, for 250 guineas, to Messrs. Agnew, March, 1874.

From Edward Jesse, Esq.'s 'Anecdotes of Dogs' - 1858 - Deer Stalking, A Scene of the Olden Time, Engraving on Steel, Painter-Spalding, Engraver-W B Scott

This drawing was done prior to 1900 and is from a friend's private collection.

This page of drawings was published in Illustrirte Zeitung on July 8, 1876, from the Internationalen Hundeaustellung in Dresden, artist H. Leutermann.

This painting comes from a private collection and depicts old pied colored mastiffs at a bear.

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