Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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and a kingagainst whom there is no rising up. That the Greyhound is comely ingoing, as well as in repose, was recognisedvery early by the Greeks, whose artistswere fond of introducing this gracefulanimal as an ornament in their decorativeworkmanship. In their metal work, theircarvings in ivory and stone, and moreparticularly as parts in the designs on theirterra-cotta oil bottles, wine coolers, andother vases, the Greyhound is frequently tobe seen, sometimes following the hare, and THE GREYHOUND. usually in remarkably characteristic atti-tudes, as in the third dog in the panel at thehead of this chapter, which is copied froma wine jug of 500 B.C. This is the dog ofCheiron the Centaur, fawning in front ofPeleus and the infant Achilles. Usually the fifteenth century, and Albert Diirer, inthe same period, introduced a beautifullytypical Greyhound in his pictorial interpre-tation of the somewhat similar subject, The Vision of St. Hubert. The houndin Van Dycks portrait of Philippe Le Roy,
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THE VISION OF ST. EUSTACE.From the Painting by Vittore Pisano in thi these Greek Greyhounds are representedwith prick ears, but occasionally the truerose ear is shown, and in the British Museumthere is a bronze lamp of the fourth centuryB.C., made in the form of a Greyhoundshead, which might have been modelled byElkington from Fullerton or Long Span.The lip of the lamp is fashioned in the formof a hare, held in the hounds mouth, thusproving that the hare was the recognisedquarry. The Greyhound enters largely into moremodern European art. There is an admir-able leash of these dogs in Vittore Pisanos Vision of St. Eustace, painted early in now in the Wallace collection, is blackwith white markings, very much resemblingMaster McGrath. All these examples giveeloquent proof of the conservation of theGreyhound type. From the earliest history of the breedthe Greyhound has been considered thehighest type of the canine race ; he hasbeen the favourite of Emperors and Kings.Xenophon and Herodotu

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