Irish Wolfhound
All Resolutions
Irish Greyhound.
(Facing p. 91.)
Description:
An Irish Wolfhound (referred to by the author as “Irish Greyhound”) stands in profile against a backdrop of moorland hills, looking backward. Once considered extinct or nearly so in the 1800s,[1] the breed was recreated in the late nineteenth century. The author mentions it as follows:
From the few individuals which we have seen of this species at different periods, and from many more of the crosses between the Irish and English Greyhound, we are inclined to think that the specimen here offered to the public eye, is a true representation of the original Greyhound of Ireland, meaning thereby, nearly such, in point of form and qualification, as he was, many ages since, imported from some of the eastern countries bordering on the Mediterranean.
- ^ Taplin, William. The sportsman’s cabinet, vol. 2, p. 98. London: printed and published for the proprietors by J. Cundee, 1804.
