162 THE ALPINE MASTIFF. 



idea that the original breed was a large and powerful mastiff, 

 short coated, deep jowled, and. fawn coloured. 



In 1815 Thomas Landseer etched an Alpine mastiff, which 

 w r as brought over to Leasowe Castle that year ; the original 

 drawing belonged to J. S. Morgan, Esq. 



In 1820 Sir E. Landseer drew his noted picture " Alpine 

 Mastiffs Reanimating a Traveller." The original picture 

 belonged to S. Addington Esq., and John Landseer engraved 

 it in 1831. The male specimen has a thoroughly character- 

 istic mastiff head, being broad and short, and the muzzle 

 blunt, it has the white blaze up the face-, and the- ears are 

 small and carried half-erect. 



In 1825 Sir E. Landseer made a drawing of an Alpine 



mastiff, which was engraved the same year by Thomas 



Landseer, and a plate of it was given in "The Annals of 

 Sporting." 



It is worthy of remark that the Alpine mastiffs drawn by 

 Sir E. Landseer are generally so termed. 



In 1820 Sir E. Landseer made a dra \ving of a St. Bernard 

 dog, of which there is a woodcut made' by Thompson the 

 same year. Landseer also drew some 1 St. .Bernard dogs, 

 which were engraved in 1829 by \V. K. Smith for a set of 

 Roger's Italy, although the complete edition of that poem was 

 not published until 1836. 



Between 1835 and 1845 an engraving was issued from a 

 portrait by Landseer of a smooth coated Alpine mastiff, 

 standing 31 inches at shoulder, and measuring 68 inches from 

 nose to tail, and of a tawny red colour, tin's is important, as 

 i lecords the size oi the Alpine mastiff at that date. 



