256 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



Four verses of Coursing in the Last Century, 

 a descriptive effusion of the old-fashioned kind, 

 suppHed him with subjects for a series of four 

 coursing jDictures which he engraved and which 

 were printed in colours. 



Hunting scenes and coaching pictures were 

 numerous among his pictures, but he did not con- 

 fine himself exclusively to sport. " Love in a 

 Tub" and "The Widow Bewitched" are known 

 through the engravings made therefrom. In 1846, 

 he exhibited two works which are noteworthy for 

 the minute accuracy of the dresses and their 

 historical interest. One was a picture of Queen 

 Elizabeth, illustrative of a hunting expedition : — 



In April 1556, Princess Elizabeth was escorted from 

 Hatfield House to Enfield Chase, that Her Grace might 

 hunt the hart, by a retinue of twelve ladies in white satin, all 

 on ambling palfreys, and twenty yeomen in green on horse- 

 back. At the conclusion of the day's chase, Her Highness 

 was honoured by cutting the throat of the hart. 



This work, which measures 6 feet high by 7 feet 

 wide, was shown at the Royal Academy ; it is 

 now in the possession of Mr. S. Lithgow, of 29, 

 Wimpole Street. The Queen rides a cream- 

 coloured horse and is surrounded by her atten- 

 dants, the majority of whom are mounted, and by 

 the hounds. " Queen Elizabeth going to Kenil- 

 worth Castle by Torchlight " was shown in the 

 same year at the Suffolk Street Exhibition. The 



