Identifier: landseercollecti00hurl (find matches)
Title: ... Landseer : a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924 Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1878
Subjects: Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 Horses
Publisher: Boston, Mass. New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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odhound is of a ponderous nature which doesnot act without deHberation. Thoroughly arousedhe may become quite terrible, but he is not hasty inhis judgments. The terrier is a nervous creature,full of activity. We can see from the tense posi-tion of his head in the picture that his whole bodyis quivering with motion. The bloodhound seems large even for his breed,which averages about twenty-seven inches in height.One of his huge paws is almost as large as the ter-riers head and could easily crush the httle creature.But in spite of his reputation for fierceness his ex-pression here is not at all savage. It is rather graveand judicial, as if carefully summing up the charac-ter of his visitor. While the terrier saucily asks Who are you ? the bloodliound is steadily gaz-ing at the intruder, as if to read his secret thoughts. 1 A story of a dog friendship as odd as that between Dignity andImpudence is told apropos of this picture in Sarah Tytlers littlebook, Landseer*$ Dogs and their Stories.
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it. Hanfstaengl, photo. JoUu Andrew i Son, Be. DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCENational Gallery, London DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE 35 A modern authority on dogs quaintly says of thebloodliounds discrimination, If he puts you downas a bad character, or one who cannot be thor-oughly trusted, there must be something radicallywrong about you, indeed. Perhaps something of the gravity of the houndscountenance is due to the looseness of the skinabout the head, making folds which suggest thewrinkles in an old mans face. The eyes, too, arerather deep set and impress one with the unfathom-able depths of the dogs intelligence. How un-like are the shining round orbs of the little terrier.The hounds sleek short-haired coat comports wellwith his dignity, while the long tangled hair ofthe terrier suits his impudent character. With thelong overhanging ears of the larger dog are amus-ingly contrasted the small sharp points standingupright on his companions head. Finally, were thetwo dogs to Hft up their voices to gre

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