84 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



glass, having, before we got up to Liston Park, invited 

 the field to spear the owner, Mr. Campbell, one of the 

 Masters of Chancery, for setting such cruel weapons. He 

 was fortunately in London. The run, or rather walk, 

 lasted three hours, the prettiest hunting I ever saw, such 

 a bad scent that Sir George Denn's harriers having been 

 out, and being unable to run a yard, he tried a drag 

 of bacon, which failing, he took them home. What 

 greater compliment could be paid to a pack of fox- 

 hounds on such a day, to attain the height of perfection 

 in hunting, viz., to walk a fox to death, over eighteen 

 or nineteen miles of country ? " 



Two prominent members of the Essex Hunt at this 

 time were the Messrs. Box, who, in the year 1820, were 

 painted by the celebrated artist, D. Wolstenholme. We 

 give a representation of this curious old picture, which is 

 now the property of Sir Walter Gilbey. It shows the two 

 sportsmen on horseback, accompanied by a few of Mr. 

 Conyers's hounds, with Lords Wood in the back-ground, 

 and Hioh Easter Church in the distance. 



Our illustrations of a day with the Essex hounds in 

 Mr. Conyers's time are taken from engravings by D. W^ol- 

 stenholme of a series of pictures painted by that artist, 

 and now in the possession of Mr. Salvin Bowlby, one of 



