STETHFS ELMER, A.B.>_ Iff 



" The rough French spaniel has been tVa-Ki the 

 best companion on these occasions .^duck shoodn^^ : 

 he watches the conduct of the sportSinan. and with 

 a velocity- uneqaalled. darts on the wo'onded bird, 

 and ha\Tng fastened on his prey, presents it wiih all 

 possible speed at the feet of his master."' The 

 second plate is from Elmers portrait of Trojan, a 

 famous foxhound belonging: u3 Mr. Corbet, when he 

 hunted the Warwickshire ODuntr\-. " Ximrod's ~ 

 a : : . _ - : : f this hound, whose portrait faces this oage, 

 : i; :':.:nd in the Apcendix. page 210- 



Traitor. TyranL Tormentor, Turpin and Tarquin. 



all as fine hounds as ever went into a field, were 



among' Trojan's get. When the pack was sold in 



1790, Mr. Corbet reserved the cid hc-und for 



himself 



Daniel's Rural Srcrzs contains ten engravings bv 

 by John Scott, from ELmer's paintings, namely. 

 "Terrier and Fox". •■Hare Sitting." ""Snared 

 Hare, " " Groups of Fish. " "• Pheasants." " Wotmied 

 Pheasantj" "Black Grouse."^ " Red Gnxisc," " Covev- 

 01 Partridges "" and " Woodcocks." The last named 

 is here reproduced. The A^^^ils of Spcrfiis^ i-os 

 iS:;5 contains a plate engraved by Joim Scoa frcsn 

 *• Partridges Basking in the Sun."" a picture which 

 had been exhibited by Eimer at the Rcyal .Aca- 

 demy : it depicts a covey alarmed while d-.3ting 

 by the sudden liight overhead of a couple of duck. 

 and is beaudfullv executed. 



