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Only a few images will be presented below to give a viewer an idea about
some of the lifestyle and hardships encountered by the drovers/herdsmen
while moving cattle to market. There were several markets. It is believed
that is how the Beardie-like also was called a "Smithfield." It was due to
their association with moving cattle along the pathways to the Smithfield
markets. There were other names as well, such as the Metropolitan Cattle
Market.
The images below are not presented in a dated order.
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This image came from an original copy of The Illustrated London
News, July 21, 1849. It was prepared by Harrison Weir (1824-1906).
Weir was employed by The Illustrated London News in 1847. This
image was entitled "Smithfield Market. The Drover's Goad" A goad is a
spiked stick used to move cattle.
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Images often appeared in The Illustrated
London News which reflected current events. Louis Wain
(1860-1939), a British artist, did a great number of the
illustrations. It is not known if Wain did the engravings of his
images. This image allows us to see the types of drovers' dogs
that he sketched at the Metropolitan Cattle Market. The sketch
appeared in the magazine in 1892. It is unfortunate that
numerous dealers have advertised a copy of the image as being Rough
Collies and Old English Sheepdogs (as opposed to rough coated collie
types). Clearly, one of the dogs was drawn to be quite similar to the
dog in the engraving presented on the "Drovers" page moving cattle at
the Metropolitan Cattle Market. No one can say for certain that some of
the shaggy coated dogs may have been called all kinds of names. Nor can
anyone say for certain because the dog did not have a tail that it was
an OES. Numerous Beardie-like dogs had stumpy tails. They exist even
today.
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In 1855, William Leighton Leitch, made a landscape drawing upon wood;
he was in the area of Inverness-shire. The drove trails can be seen. Leitch was a landscape painter who also gave instruction to Queen
Victoria and Members of the Royal Family.
A. MacGeorge wrote a Memoir book (published in 1844) about
the artist after meeting him more than forty years prior to that
date. They became very close during the last twelve or fourteen
years of the artist's life.Leitch was born in Glasgow on
November 2, 1804. The author said that:
"Leitch equaled Turner
in hard work, but there was one quality in which Turner and he
differed greatly—I mean the faithful accuracy of his pictures.
When Leitch called a view by a particular name we might rely on
its being a true representation of the place."
Many Leitch drawings
were made into engravings, principally as book illustrations.
Leitch passed away in 1882.
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W. L. Leitch's composition entitled "Morning—View in the
Highlands of Braemar showed Highland cattle stopping for a
drink. Upon magnification, two men wearing kilts can be seen at the end
of the long line of cattle (behind the rocks on the left side of the
image). This image was originally done as a watercolour, but
was later made into an etching which appeared in
The Illustrated London News on March 14,
1868. The date of the original drawing is not known. The image
presented here was
scanned from a copy of the publication.
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Sidney Richard Percy also painted many landscapes involving
drovers and cattle. This particular painting was done near
Grizedale in Cumbria, England. The year was 1873.
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Sidney Richard Percy also painted near Snowdonia. The date is unknown,
but the herdsman and dog can be seen. The cattle are in the background.
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A watercolour image carried out by W. L. Leitch showing
cattle and a drover near the River Clyde with Dunbarton Rock
near. A dog is obviously present in this image.
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William Henry James Boot was an English artist who did
landscapes. The Craig Dhu image was reproduced from an engraved plate
in the book Picturesque Europe: Delineation by Pen and Pencil,
published in 1878. It is a pastoral view with cattle grazing
above Kingussie, Scotland (Craig Dhu mountain (~2100 feet) is in
the distance). This drawing was originally rendered as a woodcut.
The date the image was originally prepared is unknown, but Boot
passed away in 1918.
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Louis Bosworth Hurt (1856-1929) completed many landscape
paintings of cattle droving in the highlands. Was that dog a
Beardie-like letting the cattle know that he meant business? The
painting was dated from 1879.
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The 1879 Louis Bosworth Hurt painting, was also cropped, to show the
drover, his dog and the cattle. The date was 1891.
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In this painting by Hurt, it looks as though the drover is crossing the
water in a small boat. On close examination, his passenger
could be a dog but that cannot be said with certainty.
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Hurt's painting of cattle grazing. Notice the thatched roof
on the house in the background. The date this was painted is
unknown.
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Another Hurt painting showing the herdsman and his dog.
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This could not have been a pleasant day, but Hurt showed how the
weather was not always in the favour of the drovers.
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A cropped image of an etching from a Otto Weber drawing. This image
allows a viewer to see how cattle were carried on ferry boats. The date
was 1889.
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An image of a painting of cattle was made into a postcard. Perhaps the
cattle had been transported onto the shore by a ferry. A ferry is
present in the middle of the loch (lake). A dog is also present in the
scene. Unknown date.
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A black and white image from a postcard demonstrating the
mist of the mountainous areas. Unknown date.
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This is a modern image of Highland cattle rendered as a watercolour by
P. Turner.
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One can see in the close-up view how the cattle went into the
water for their drinks.
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