158 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



None of Scott's plates are better known to sports- 

 men of the present day than those exquisitely fine 

 pieces which he contributed to Daniel's RhtuI 

 Sports. These pictures include portraits of re- 

 nowned fox-hounds, harriers, beagles, pointers, and 

 greyhounds ; of a terrier worrying a fox, greyhounds 

 coursing a hare, and other beautiful examples of 

 engraving. In 1827 a copy of Rural Sports, con- 

 taining numerous rare specimens of engraving, 

 many from private plates by Scott, and bound by 

 Thomas Gosden, the renowned London bookbinder, 

 publisher, and sporting character, was sold to Mr. 

 Tayleure, printseller, of Waterloo Place, for 90 gs. 



In the early numbers of The Sporting Magazine 

 we find some fine specimens of Scott's work in 

 plates from portraits of famous race-horses painted 

 by George Stubbs, R.A. Among these may 

 be noted those of Ambrosio, Marske the sire 

 of Eclipse, Mambrino, Shark, Gimcrack, and 

 Eclipse. In the same publication at later dates 

 we find numerous plates from the works of our 

 greatest animal painters; Henry Aiken, J. F. 

 Herring, Abraham Cooper, R.A., and Ben Mar- 

 shall. The last named was a close friend of Scott's, 

 and by long practice the engraver so thoroughly 

 caught the spirit of the artist that the engraved 

 print was really a facsimile of the original painting. 

 In the Sportsman's Repository, published in 1820 



