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inches. It differs from the larger and more 

 recent engraving in that it bears under the likeness 

 and above the letterpress a portrait of Dragon 

 in a circular medallion. A third plate, similar to 

 this, giving the portrait, was engraved by John 

 Scott for the Sporting Magazine, vol. 18, for April, 

 1801. 



Several of Wootton's pictures of race-horses were 

 engraved ; a set of seven paintings entitled " Fox 

 Hunting," were engraved by Carnot ; and for 

 Gay's Fables, published in 1727, he executed a 

 series of illustrations which display both ability 

 and humour. A portrait of William Duke of 

 Cumberland, with the routed army of the Pretender 

 in the back-ground, was engraved by Baron. 



According to Mathew Pilkington, whose Dic- 

 tionary of Painters was first published in 1770, 

 Wootton "was first distinguished by frequenting 

 Newmarket, and drawing race-horses," and "after- 

 wards applied himself to landscape, approaching 

 towards Caspar Poussin, and sometimes imitating 

 happily the glow of Claude Lorraine." 



Wootton possessed a collection of his own works 

 which were sold when he gave up painting, which 

 he did a few years before his death. His drawincrs 

 and prints were sold on January 21, 1761, and his 

 pictures on March 12 and 13 following. He 

 evidently prospered as an artist ; he built for 



