- Type: Art Audio File
- Collection: European Art
- Culture/Region: Europe
- Subject Area: Visual Arts
- Grade Level: 9-12, College, Adult
This painting appeared in the May 1833 The Sporting Magazine as an engraving by J. Romney. The engraving, made after Lambert Marshall’s copy of his father’s original, accompanied the article “Grouse Shooting in the North.” The article described Colonial Henry Campbell’s two pointers as being:
Of the true Kingston breed, said by some, in these days of rail-roads, steam, and flying fox-hounds, to be “rather slow,” but if a Sportsman wants something faster than the one that has found the birds, it must be to catch such as he has not the skill to get by other means; and if he wishes to see anything more steady, he can only find it by looking at the Lion on Northumberland House. The Noble families of Manvers, Cawdor, Pierrepoint, and Campbell still venerate this breed of dogs.
The Setter that is backing so patiently is descended from the breed long in the possession of Capt. William Churchill of the Guards, the friend, both in youth and manhood, of His late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who invariably declared that of all four-footed animals he ever knew, these were nearest to perfection.