ABRAHAM COOPER II3 



acquainted with many of the streams in England 

 and north of Tweed." 



Mr. Wheble, the proprietor of the Sporting 

 Magazine, "discovered" Cooper in iSii, the 

 year before pictures from the artist's easel were 

 exhibited in the Royal Academy, and from that 

 date until 1S69 eighty-nine engravings from his 

 pictures were published in the Magazine, many 

 of these being works which had been hung on 

 the Academy walls. John Scott and J. Webb 

 engraved a large proportion of these plates, but 

 the names of other engravers of the first rank, 

 J. H. Engleheart and E. Hacker particularly, occur 

 with frequency on more recent prints. 



Among the pictures engraved for separate jaub- 

 lication we may note the portrait of a famous 

 pointer named "Shot," size of plate 24^ inches 

 by iQi inches (with this picture was published a 

 companion by Agasse of " Dash," a famous setter) ; 

 " Fallow Deer," " Stag," and " Roebuck," three 

 engravings on stone by Fairland, the plates 

 measuring each 12 inches by 10 inches; "Ring- 

 wood," "Carlo and Shandy," "Fidele," and "Juno," 

 four companion pictures, also engraved on stone 

 by Fairland, plates 14 inches by 11 inches; and 

 "A Fo.x Hunt," size of plate 8^ inches by 7 inches. 

 These prints were published by R. Ackermann. 



Cooper numbered among his friends and patrons 

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