I 88 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



We find Stothard's few purely sporting pictures 

 reproduced in a book entitled Cynegetics, or 

 Essays on Sp07-ting, to which is added The Chase, 

 by Somerville, published in 1788 by John Stock- 

 dale, London. This contains two spirited plates, 

 (i) Tiger Hunting on Elephants, and (2) Hare 

 Hunting : the Death. The latter represents four 

 sportsmen on horseback and one on the ground 

 holding up the dead hare, the hounds surrounding 

 him. These two plates were engraved by James 

 Heath. 



The first volume of the Sporting Magazine — that 

 for October, 1792 — contains a frontispiece by Sto- 

 thard ; this is a picture of His Majesty George 

 HI. on horseback with huntsmen and hounds on 

 their way out stag-hunting in Windsor Forest ; the 

 plate was engraved by Thomas Cook. In many 

 of the earlier issues we find exquisite plates engraved 

 from Stothard's historical works ; the figures, 

 whether human or animal, are always grandly con- 

 ceived and boldly executed. 



Of Stothard's Royal Academy pictures which 

 display his talent as a painter of animals we may 

 note the following : — Keppel, Earl of Albemarle, 

 at the Siege of Lisle, where his horse was shot 

 under him {vide the Peerage of Great Britain^, 

 shown at the exhibition of 1794. A Lion 

 Hunt, exhibited in 1798. His Landscape with 



