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in the Print Room at the British Museum. In 

 several of these plates (which are " dedicated to the 

 Gentlemen of the Feather Club") the metallic sheen 

 of the plumage is very beautifully suggested. On 

 February 23, 1869, the Pigeon Fanciers of England, 

 Scotland and Ireland presented him with a testi- 

 monial to mark their esteem for his private 

 character and their admiration for the skill with 

 which he portrayed those birds which it is the aim 

 of the " Fancy " to produce. 



Dean Wolstenholme, it may be added, was the 

 inventor of a process of colour printing which was 

 afterwards patented by Leighton Brothers. 



From 1820 till about 1862 the artist lived in 

 Chads Row, Gray's Inn Road ; he then mov^ed 

 to Highgate, where he passed the remainder of 

 his days. Many of his later pictures are landscapes 

 showing the scenery of Hendon, Hampstead and 

 Finchley. The metropolis saw comparatively little 

 of him however. Until the last he was a great 

 traveller, and in course of his long life visited 

 nearly every corner of the United Kingdom. 

 Like George Stubbs and others of the craft, he 

 continued hale and active till a few weeks before 

 his death, and thought nothing of a twelve- 

 mile walk. He died in 1882, at the advanced 

 age of eighty-four An old friend of his, now 

 living, has described his character. " A man at 



