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horse named Warwick, was engraved. A print of 

 it hangs in the rooms of the Shire Horse 

 Society. " Friends of the Agricultural Society," 

 three heads of bullocks, was exhibited in Suffolk 

 Street in 1849. 



Among Wolstenholme's most popular and success- 

 ful pictures were " The Burial of Tom Moody," and 

 "The Shade of Tom Moody," the former of which 

 is here reproduced. Tom Moody, it will be re- 

 membered, made a dying request that at his grave 

 side six earth stoppers should "give three rattling 

 view halloas " in farewell ; which request was duly 

 carried out. Both of these works were engraved by 

 the artist himself; the copper plates are still in 

 existence. A series of four pictures of the Essex 

 Hunt afforded him an excellent opportunity of dis- 

 playing his skill in grouping numerous figures in 

 appropriate landscape. These pictures are entitled 

 (i) The Meet at Matching Green ; (2) Drawing the 

 Covert of Man Wood ; (3) Fox Crossing from 

 Leading Roothing ; and (4) The Death. The 

 figures in these pictures — men, horses and hounds 

 — are all portraits ; they were painted in the time of 

 Mr. Henry J. Conyers, who succeeded his father in 

 the Mastership in 18 18. "The Essex Hunt " series 

 is now in the possession of Mr. Salvin Bowlby, 

 joint master of the Essex Hounds at the present 

 time. The artist was likewise the engraver. 



