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1 798, deserve mention both as works of art and as 

 accurate presentments of the sport of the period : 

 these are entitled respectively " Putting Hounds in 

 Cover," "Away," "Full Cry," and "The Death." 

 The collection at South Kensington includes six 

 representative examples of Howitt's water-colour 

 drawings : " In Full Cry," and " River with 

 Anglers," we have him as the sportsman ; in "A 

 Council of Animals " and " Lion and Lioness," the 

 naturalist ; in " Netley Abbey," the landscape 

 painter ; and in the " Country Horse Fair," the 

 painter of rural scenes. It will be observed from 

 the list of eno-ravinos which follows that Howitt 

 excelled also as an engraver and etcher, executing 

 the plates from many of his own pictures. 



Amonsf the best-known books for which the 

 artist did plates must be mentioned the famous 

 Thotights on Hunting, by Peter Beckford, an 

 illustrated edition of which was published in 1 798, 

 by D. Bremner, London. This contained six 

 engravings illustrative of Hare Hunting, five of 

 Fox Hunting, and others. 



" British Sportsmen " was the title of a work by 

 the artist ; it contained seventy-two plates and was 

 published by S. Gosnell in 1800. A second edition 

 of this work containing seventy plates was published 

 in 181 2 by Edward Orme. 



In the year 1800, after an interval of six years, 



