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at Malton in the followinsf year. The Dwarf 

 Beagles whose portraits appeared in the Magazine 

 in 1 83 1, were from the pack of Colonel Thornton, 

 who bred them ; these beagles were of the smallest 

 breed and were noted for their beauty. Bracer, 

 whose picture appeared in the Nevj Sporting 

 Magazine in 1836, w^as a famous hound in the 

 Linlithgow and Stirlingshire pack : this plate was 

 taken from a part of a large picture of Mr. W. R. 

 Ramsay, of Barnton, the Master, and his hounds. 



Daniel's Rural Sports, published in four volumes 

 by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme in 1807, con- 

 tains four plates from paintings by Chalon, namely, 

 " The Old English Setter," " The Pointer," 

 " Spaniels " and " Four Pointers standing to 

 Game ; " the first three were engraved by John 

 Scott and the last by Laney. Chalons Drawing 

 Book of Animals and Birds of every description, 

 contained a series of plates from his pictures 

 engraved on soft ground. 



The engraving given is from this artist's picture 

 of a gamekeeper schooling pointers ; probably the 

 work which he exhibited, among others, at the 

 Royal Academy in 1805, under the title "Game- 

 keepers and Dogs belonging to the Duke of 

 York." 



In 1S46 Chalon met with a severe accident, and 

 though the Royal Academy catalogue shows that 



