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heav)- state carriage which stands in the back- 

 ground. Plate 2 shows four grey post-horses with 

 two postboys in attendance ; one boy stands by 

 the near leader while the second is drawing out 

 from the coach-house the travelling chaise ; the 

 wheelers stand about sixteen hands, the leaders 

 about two inches less. In both these pictures the 

 excellent drawing of the horses arrests attention. 



" A Holderness Cow," or as we should now call it, 

 a Shorthorn, is an admirably drawn picture, a plate 

 from which, by W. Ward, dedicated by the artist 

 to Lord Somerville, President of the Board of 

 Agriculture, was published in 1798. This plate 

 measures 22 inches by 17 inches. 



The year 1800 saw Garrard's election as an 

 Associate of the Royal Academy ; it was in 1800, 

 too, that he completed the designs for that most 

 valuable and instructive work, Garrard's Prints of 

 Improved British Cattle. The introduction to 

 this work shows that the artist had obtained the 

 support of the Board of Agriculture in making the 

 drawings. The volume, a folio published by J. 

 Smeeton, of St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, 

 contains coloured plates representative of all breeds 

 of cattle ; a table of the dimensions of the animals 

 portrayed and a history of the breed accompany 

 each plate. Not the least remarkable part of the 

 undertaking was a set of models from Nature made 



