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therefore the fruits of their work to sculptors and 

 modellers he obtained the support of the Council 

 of the Royal Academy and some of the leading 

 sculptors of the day, and petitioned Parliament for 

 the legal protection of such works. In 179S, his 

 exertions were rewarded by seeing 38 Geo. III., 

 c. 71, placed on the Statute Book. This is an 

 Act " for encouraging the art of models and casts 

 of beasts, and other things therein mentioned." 



In 1792 were published engravings from two 

 good examples of his work, " A View from the 

 East End of the Brewery, Chiswell Street," the plate, 

 measuring 21 inches by i6| inches, being engraved 

 in mezzotint by W. Ward, and "A Brewhouse 

 Yard," plate 22 inches by 17 inches, engraved also 

 in mezzotint, by R. Earlom. The artist's choice of 

 scene was doubtless due to the fact that on a 

 brewer's premises he found the massive old English 

 horse which at an earlier date was known as the 

 War horse. The animals in these pictures are 

 typical specimens of the heavy Shire horse of the 

 present time ; the gelding in the Chiswell Street 

 brewery picture is a model which breeders of Shire 

 horses will find instructive. Garrard's knowledge of 

 anatomy is made apparent in the drawing of these 

 horses. One of his best subject pieces is to be 

 seen in the Duke of Bedford's collection at Woburn 

 Abbey. This is "An Agricultural Show," which is 



