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same publication contains examples of this in his 

 "Shepherd's Dog" and "The Water Dog"; the 

 eyes in each case are liquid with light. In the 

 possession of Charles Dean, Esq., of Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields, is a copy of The Sportsman s Cabi- 

 net, published in folio size by Cundee, in 1803. 

 This is enriched with proofs and etchings, and is 

 elegantly bound. It contains the brief but im- 

 portant inscription, " The only copy taken off, 

 signed John Scott, " and to this particular book 

 is prefixed a portrait of Scott published by his 

 widow. This portrait appears at page 152 ; the 

 original engraving was done gratuitously by Fry 

 for Mrs. Scott, investing the picture with addi- 

 tional interest. 



Artists sometimes complain, and sometimes with 

 reason, that the engravers' interpretation of their 

 work does them injustice. Happy the painter 

 whose picture was entrusted to Scott ; such was his 

 artistic talent and so intimate his knowledge of 

 animal life that he could improve when copying the 

 picture on his plate. Thomas Landseer, it is worth 

 reminding the reader, laid his famous brother under 

 a similar obligation ; his reproductions of Sir 

 Edwin's great pictures were made with such ability 

 and artistic feeling that in some respects the merit 

 of the original was enhanced in the engraving. 



It may be justly claimed for Scott that he pos- 



