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CHAPTER X. 



THE OLD BLACK-AND-TAN TERRIER. 



That the black -and -tan was the fox-terrier of 

 olden times I have no doubt, and I think the 

 belief is justified by the testimony of old sporting 

 pictures and the many references in books and 

 magazine articles to the tan - marked terrier of 

 the day. A strong evidence in favour of the 

 theory is found in the pictures of Sartorius, the 

 well - known painter of sporting subjects in the 

 eighteenth century, who in most of his repre- 

 sentations of hounds gives one or more of the 

 back-and-tan terriers. These little dogs are either 

 rough or smooth, so that both varieties were 

 evidently known, the smooth ones as painted by 

 Sartorius generally having prick ears. 



At Stapleton, or Steepleton, once the home of 

 Peter Beckford, there is, or was, a picture by 

 Sartorius of two couples of Beckford's hounds 

 with two terriers, one of the latter of which is 

 black and tan and the other all tan, both 

 apparently being wire-haired. Another of this 

 artist's works is at Inwood ; and in this picture 



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