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bringing out. Of more interest to sportsmen, 

 however, was another commission which the artist 

 executed in the same year : this was a series of 

 landscape drawings for a new edition of JValtons 

 Angler, or, more accurately, of the joint work by 

 "Good old Izaak" and his friend Charles Cotton, 

 which originally appeared in 1676. In order to 

 carry out his task, Stothard repaired to Dovedale, 

 in Derbyshire, with a few friends ; and while he 

 was busy with his pencil they employed themselves 

 with their rods. His life-long habit of sketching 

 everything that came under his eye appears to 

 have asserted itself, for on one occasion when the 

 anglers had made a good basket, Stothard makes 

 the brief entry in his journal, " Drew the roach 

 and graylings." The journal kept by the artist 

 during his Derbyshire trip shows him hale and 

 energetic, taking long walks daily in search of 

 views to fill his sketch-book. 



His original works are well represented in 

 the National Collections. There are nine on the 

 walls of the National Gallery, inclusive of the 

 "Canterbury Pilgrims." Of these a mythological 

 subject, entitled " A Battle," showing men and 

 horses in fierce strife (on canvas, 23 inches by 26 

 inches wide), calls for special mention as a picture 

 of animals. In the South Kensington Museum 

 are ten paintings in oil, six pictures and designs 



