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Manchesters in Art
1850-1900


"THREE OF THE RIGHT SORT
The Property of W. Turner, From the Original Picture by B. Aplin Howe
These very celebrated little Ratters have beaten all the Dogs that have ever  been pitted against them, of their weight, for the last three years. London, Published by W. Soffe, 454 New Oxford Street, May, 1851."

White dog with collar is Prince (under 5 lbs.); center dog is Toby (5 1/4 lbs.) and other white on the right with brass plate on collar is Teddy (7 lbs.).  Another version of the painting (perhaps the original?) can be seen below along with a third that is painted in the same style but with some variation of colour in the accompanying dogs.

 


Ratting at the Blue Anchor Tavern
c. 1850-1852
Detail below

'Rat-Catching at the Blue Anchor Tavern, Bunhill Row, Finsbury', c1850. Tiny the Wonder is attempting to kill two hundred barn rats in under an hour, a feat which he accomplished on two separate occasions, on 28th March 1848 and 27th March 1849. Count d'Orsay is among the audience, and the man in the centre holding a watch is the time-keeper. Tiny was owned by Jemmy Shaw, the proprietor of the Blue Anchor Inn, who described himself as the 'oldest caterer in rat-killing in the metropolis' and could store 2000 rats on his premises.


Oil on Board (Private Collection)
Artist: John Collins
1853


Joseph Stevens
1850s 


"English Terrier (black and tan) is an elegant animal, when finely bred and well-cared for.  The illustration represents a female of the true old fashion breed. These dogs are very quick and intelligent ; generally excellent ratters and may be trained to hunt anything.  they vary greatly in weight from two to twenty-five pounds, having of late years been greatly refined by crossing with the Italian Greyhound. If persisted in, this produced some very elegant specimens, but their proportions generally lack symmetry, and they become delicate and unfit for active service."  Illustration and excerpt from Breeding, Training, Management, Diseases, &c of Dogs by Francis Butler.  Published in 1860 (second edition)]


"Spilt Milk" or "The Milk Snatchers"
Artist: Conradijn Cunaeus
1828-1895


From: The Shot-Gun and Sporting Rifle: and the Dogs, Ponies, Ferrets &c.
Published in 1862 (second edition)


From: The illustrated Natural History
Published in 1865


from: Manual of British Rural Sports
Published in 1867


Ch. Lion and Dido with Nelly, the Property of Miss Hales
Artist: Ignazio Spiridoni of Canterbury
1867


Charles van den Eyken
1809-1891


Edwin Frederick Holt
1870s


William Hamilton
1872

ENGLISH TERRIER

"Lady" by Frank Redmond's celebrated dog "Tartar" out of "Vic" a Manchester-bred bitch, formerly the property of the Hon. Egremont Lascelles. Her weight is about 6 1/2 pounds.  (The Dog in Health and Disease, 1872 and subsequent editions)


The Bumblebee
Attributed to artist Francois Bernard


Mr. Howard Mapplebeck's Toy Terrier "Belle" contrasted
with his Manchester Terrier "Queen II" in 1875.


Little Terrier
Artist: Frederick August Wenderoth
1875


French watercolour painting of a Manchester Terrier
by artist Charles-Fernand De Condamy.
1878 - 1882


Artist: Arthur Tait

Belcher, the subject of the illustration, is a three-year-old dog, bred and up to the present time exhibited by Mr. Henry Lacy, Lacy House, Hebden Bridge. He is considered the most perfect specimen of the breed extant. First exhibited at Hull in October, 1875, he took first and special prizes, and has ever since kept at the head of his class, having been first at Birmingham, Alexandra Palace, Crystal Palace, Brighton, Darlington, Islington, Manchester, and a number of smaller shows. Belcher is remarkably well bred, being by Mr. Lacy's General out of his Saff II., both sire and dam going back to Handley's celebrated Saff by Gas out of Limie, and is therefore essentially a " Manchester" terrier. Mr. Lacy's dogs having been recently distributed, we understand Belcher is now the property of Mr. Tom B. Swinburne, Darlington.


Engraving from British Dogs-Their Varieties, History, Characteristics, Breeding Management and Exhibition
1879


Engraving from British Dogs-Their Varieties, History, Characteristics, Breeding Management and Exhibition
1879 



Ch. Starkie Ben is pictured above and below.  Born in 1892, Starkie Ben was an accomplished showmen. 
He is shown below in a photo taken during the 1890s.


1880


Carl Suhrland 
1880s

 


1880s


"Nothing Venture, Nothing Have"
The Illustrated London News
July 18, 1885

Illustration of the "ENGLISH TOY TERRIER" from The Century Illustrated Magazine
November 1885 to April 1886


Artist Briton Riviere
1840-1920


At the Dog Show


Richard Ansdell
1815-1885


E. Brown
1875-1902  


Trespassers
Artist: Frederick Goodall
1886


"Jilted"
By Briton Riviere
1887


The Manchester terrier and the Toy (colour version below)
The Dog: In Health and Disease
1887
(below in colour)

 
Artist: Saff
1889 


Artist: Alfred Wheeler
1890

 
English Terriers
"Silvio" the Property of Mr. Alfred Benjamin. "Serpolette" the Property of Mr. Tom B., Swinburne. "
Salford" the Property of Sir Wm. E.H. Verner, Bart.
From Cassell's Illustrated Book of the Dog
1890


Artist Alice Leotard
1893


Arthur Wardle
From A History of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland (The Terriers)
Published in 1894 


Toy Terriers
Arthur Wardle
From A History of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland (The Terriers)
Published in 1894



Artist: Gustav Muss-Arnolt
1858-1927

 

 

 

 
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