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lished by Henry G. Bohn, London, in 1845, 

 eighteen years after Scott's death, contains forty- 

 two engraved plates representing the Horse and 

 the Dog in all their varieties from paintings by 

 different artists. 



After a long and painful illness John Scott died 

 on December 24, 1827, in the fifty-third year of 

 his age, leaving a widow, one son, and several 

 daughters. His remains were deposited at Chelsea. 

 James Barenger, the animal painter, and his fellow- 

 townsman, Thomas Frazer Ranson, also an en- 

 graver, were the only two mourners, except the 

 members of his own family, who attended his 

 funeral. An obituary notice in The Sporting 

 Magazine of the following February alludes in 

 feeling terms to the circumstances of his death ; 

 the illness which terminated fatally was induced 

 by intense application and study. As the letter 

 from " Philanthropos," already quoted, shows us, 

 disease found the unfortunate man unprepared in 

 a pecuniary sense, and despite the aid of the 

 charitable, and the pension accorded by the Artists' 

 Benevolent Fund, it is to be feared that the closing 

 years of his life were passed in penury. 



