TYPE OF THE ENGLISH MASTIFF ABOUT l82O. 157 



this painting was lithographed by W. P. Sherlock in 1828. 

 The original picfture was presented to the nation by J. 

 Sheepshanks in 1857. 



In Captain Thos. Brown's work Biographical Sketches and 

 Authentic Anecdotes of Dogs, published in 1829, is a cut of 

 a mastiff engraved by Austin, from a sketch by Capt. T. 

 Brown. The same is also figured in The Field, Book of 

 Sports and Pastimes of the British Islands, published 1833. 

 The head in this dog is very typical, the stern is carried over 

 the back, the same a^ in nearly all Bewicks, from which we 

 may gather that the downward carriage of the tail was a point 

 introduced subsequent to 1830. 



In " A History of British Quadrupeds," by Thos. Bell, F. 

 R.S.F.L.S., etc., published 1837, is figured a mastiff, drawn 

 and engraved by Dicks and Vasley. In this specimen the 

 white on the face, neck, paws, and end of stern is again shown ; 

 the stern is also slightly rough at the end, but has more of 

 the downward carriage ; this dog is long and low, slightly 

 deficient in depth of chest, lips very pendulous, a characteristic 

 that modern breeders and judges have lost sight of, some even 

 regarding it as derived from the hound, and condemn it in 

 consequence, but this is a mistake, in fact a piece of ignorance ; 

 the Asiatic mastiffhas it, and these old pictures of the English 

 mastiff exhibiting dogs perfectly free from any trace of 

 houndiness, show that the English mastiff (previous to the 

 introduction of the tighter skinned Boarhound blood) had it. 



In the hound the lips of the lower jaw hang down at the 

 corners of the mouth, and there is more or less a fold of loose 

 skin that falls from immediately behind the eye, to the corner 

 or end of the mouth, which causes the deep hanging flews, 

 s o termed from fluod, to flow, because this fold of skin acting 



