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illustrative of incidents in Colonel Thornton's famous 

 Sporting Tour through the Highlands of Scotland. 

 These were painted conjointly by Sawrey Gilpin, 

 who did the animals, Philip Reinagle, who drew the 

 portraits, and George Barrett, who was responsible 

 for the landscape and the work as a whole. As 

 might fairly be expected of the combined efforts 

 of three Royal Academicians, the pictures display 

 peculiar merit as well as interest. " Czarina and 

 Maria," a brace of greyhounds coursing a hare, was 

 engraved by John Scott, and was used to illustrate 

 Daniels' Rural Sports, published in iSoi. These 

 dogs were no doubt two of Colonel Thornton's ; 

 in the Sporting Magazine for INIay, 1805, we read 

 that "The produce of [Colonel Thornton's] Major 

 and Fawn-coloured Czarina, Lvdia and Czarina, are 

 in London, and may be seen by applying to Mr. 

 Tattersall. They are matched for 2,000 guineas to 

 kill a box hare within 500 yards, and the hare to 

 have 20 yards law." The three works mentioned 

 above as having been painted for Thornton's tour 

 in Scotland are in the Elsenham Hall collection. 



Mr. Freeman-Mitford, C.B., has at Batsford Park 

 very fine samples of Sawrey Gilpin's work in the 

 large painting of " Cattle going down to Water at 

 Sunset " ; in the finished sketches from which the 

 two pictures of Gulliver's Travels were made ; in 

 a study in sepia entitled "The War Horse, " and in 



