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In Scotland large sheep-farms was introduced after 1745.
The Highland Clearances began in 1785. This period of time is well written
about both in books and on the internet. It is still very
painful for many Scottish descendants. The book The Highland
Clearances by John Prebble (1963) is devoted to what
happened during this time in Scotland.
The final end to the Clearances
came in 1886 with the passing of the Crofters Act.
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1749 |
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Georges Buffon published his
Histoire Naturelle (shortened title) in 15 Volumes from 1749
through1767. It was translated to English in 1781. He included
an image of Le Grand Barbet. |
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1770 |
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Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, was
painted by Thomas Gainsborough in c.1770-1771. A mezzotint
engraving of the painting was done in 1771 by John Dixon.
The dog has been called an Otterhound, a Norfolk water-spaniel, a Beardie,
an Old English sheepdog, and a Dandie Dinmont terrier. etc. Let
us take a closer look by clicking on the link. There is evidence
that it could be the earliest known painting of a Beardie-like
dog. |
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Did Gainsborough paint Beardie-likes?
A chalk sketch of two dogs was
made by Gainsborough (1727-1788). It was named Tristram and
Fox. One of the dogs in the Gainsborough sketch could easily resemble any chalk
study prepared today for a working Beardie-like sheepdog.
By kind permission of the Gainsborough Museum, we
have a copy of the Lane etching. |
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1790 |
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Thomas Bewick published his
History of Quadrupeds in 1790. He included line drawings
of "The Shepherd's Dog," "The Cur Dog" and "The Large Rough
Water Dog. The water dog is remarkably similar to Buffon's Le
Grand Barbet from 1749. Bewick's Shepherd's Dog is described by
a famous dog writer (James Watson) as being the
first representation of a Rough Collie dog. |
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Late 1700s |
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An engraving by Stephen Miller
illustrated the interior of a very small country cottage where a
shepherd and his family lived. A portion of the engraving was
placed here for the viewer to see. |
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c.1800
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Beginning of Modern Era (regarding the
History section of this website). Sydenham Edwards' Cynographia
Britannica was the first dog book to be
illustrated by coloured plates. Edwards depicted a rough and a
smooth-coated collie in his book, which was the second dog book
to be published in English.
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1803 |
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Taplin (c.1750-c.1830), a veterinary surgeon,
published his book entitled Sportsman's Cabinet in 1803.
It was actually published
under Taplin's pseudonym name of "A Veteran Sportsman."
Included in the book was an engraving of the Reinagle painting.
This picture has been included in numerous Beardie publications.
It must, therefore, be from a date on or around 1803.
This book is also the third dog book to be published
in the English language. |
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c.1828 |
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A painting by John Constable.
Was the shepherd being followed by a Beardie-like dog?
Rights were granted from the Rights and
Sales Executive Department of Tate Images, Tate Picture Library,
The Lodge, Milbank, London SW1P 4RG. |
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1829 |
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First dog book to be published in Scotland
was Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of Dogs,
by Thomas Brown, took place. |
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c. 1840s |
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This image was reproduced from an engraving published in the
1840s. The engraving was taken from a painting
by David Octavius Hill of Perth. It appears here for
the viewer to see a geographical area where a Scottish shepherd
watched the animals drink from water in the Loch Turit area
(more commonly known today as Loch Turret). Notice that the
Scottish shepherd wrapped in his plaid (cloak) has a dog at his
side. |
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1843 |
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Thomas William Earl, uncle to Maud Earl (a well known canine artist), painted
this Beardie-like puppy in1843. Notice this puppy has a tail and
a beard. It has been identified as an Old English Sheepdog puppy.
Writers such as Rawdon Lee in the later 1800s concluded that the
Beardies and OES were one and the same. Some of Lee's writings appear
hereafter under their published dates. This puppy has a tail. |
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1844 |
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Henry Stephens (1795-1874) was a farmer who also became a
writer on agriculture. It was his aim, after owning his own
farm, to put forth writings that would assist those
inexperienced in the farming way of life.
Thanks to assistance from the Library and Archives of the
Royal Agricultural Society of England, and ebook technology, we
were able to obtain the language from pages 627-629 of the book
where he gives advice on how to train and work a shepherd's dog. |
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c. 1844
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In this linked image, one can easily conclude that
there were similarities between numerous types of dogs. In this
particular image, the similarity would perhaps be between the
head of an Otterhound and the Beardie-like dogs.
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1845 |
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William Youatt authored The Dog.
He was born in Exeter in either 1776 or 1777. He later moved to
London and became associated with a veterinary practice. He
became an original member of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England after it formed in 1838. His dog book was
first published in 1845 not long before his death in 1847.
There have been many editions of this book. It is now available for free on
Project Gutenberg, Ebook #9478 (an edited version by Elisha J.
Lewis).
Youatt placed an engraving in his book entitled "The Scotch
Sheep Dog." It is not a Beardie-like dog. Instead, it
resembled what became known as a Rough Coated Collie.
Youatt also included an image for what he called the English sheepdog.
It seems strange that Youatt did not
seem to know about a Beardie-like dog, especially since only one year
later Edward Jesse provided an engraving showing another
type of "Scotch Colly."
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1846 |
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Edward Jesse, (1780-1868), an English writer,
wrote Anecdotes of Dogs (1846). In the first
edition of this book, there was an engraving by W. P. Smith
entitled "Scotch Colly."
The close up image of this engraving was
provided courtesy of Charwynne Dog Features.
The engraving shows a Scotch Colly different from the
Scotch Sheep Dog presented by Youatt. Again, notice there is a tail.
In the later editions of Jesse's book, a different
type of dog was used to represent the Scotch Collie. This image
has appeared in several other books
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