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Spanish and Portuguese Water Dogs
Compare some of the Spanish Water dogs with the picture of Stubbs’s “A Water Spaniel” in the earlier entry.
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Sussex Spaniels Look Like Tootsie Rolls
The Sussex spaniels is one of the older breeds of spaniel. The modern dog has short-legs and a long back, although it did not always have those characteristics. In fact, look at this depiction of the...
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Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon’s Gamekeeper
Painting by George Stubbs (circa 1800). The dog appears to be a lurcher or a specially bred “deer greyhound”– greyhound crossed with something big and heavy. I think the doe is a fallow deer.
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George Stubbs’s elkhound
This dog is supposed to be an elkhound. The dog is a sable spitz, though it is not gray or “wolf sable.” And its coat is long and feathered, unlike any of the three (or four) breeds of modern Swedish...
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The Grosvenor Hunt (1762)
This is probably George Stubbs’s most famous painting. It is an old-fashioned English deer hunt with hounds, a sport that was largely replaced with mounted fox hunts. This painting also goes a long...
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