192 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



such a dog ! a terrier starting alive out of the canvas ! — 

 there are two, besides " The Death of the Bull," and 

 nearly as large — for the animals are the size of life — 

 in the dining-hall. In execution and in interest I think 

 them even superior to that magnificent work of art. 

 They are at the opposite end of the room — companion- 

 pictures — on each side of the central doorway leading 

 to the library. On one side is the picture of " The Stag, 

 the Hind, and the Fawn;" on the other, " The Wild 

 Bull, the Cow, and the Calf." I must leave the first of 

 these priceless pictures to notice — though I cannot do 

 justice to — the latter : " The Wild Bull, the Cow, and the 

 Calf" — all the size of life. The bull is very grand, as 

 he stands on a small rising ground nearly facing the 

 spectator, and fore-shortened; the whole of the calf, 

 which occupies the lower portion of the picture, is also 

 shown ; but the cow, which stands across it, somewhat 

 higher than her calf, yet lower than the bull, is only 

 shown as far as the chine, her middle and hind quarters 

 being cut off by the requirements of the picture. They 

 all stand up, and the whole, apart from its beauty as a 

 work of art, is a wonderful study ; for these are admir- 

 able portraits of the Chillingham wild cattle as they are, 

 painted by a master hand from life, and true to the very 

 smallest minutiae. The character of both male and 

 female gives the strongest impression to the mind of 

 what may be technically called " blood and breeding." 

 Grrand, masculine, majestic is the bull ; peculiarly sweet, 

 feminine, and elegant is the cow ; and both are distin- 

 guished by what a breeder would call " style." The cow 

 much reminded me, in the symmetry and beauty of form 

 of those parts shown, of some of the late Sir Charles 

 Knightley's females ; her type of head much resembled 



