3-028-264 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prize dogs at the Paris Dog Show, 1870. 'The show, which contains some very good specimens of watch and fancy dogs is singularly deficient in sporting breeds...The large dog at the top of the page is the animal which received the first prize for watch-dogs. It is a cross between the famous African sloughi, so few of which are to be met with in Europe, and the Bordeaux mastiff, and is exhibited by M. Muller, of Nancy. In the left corner is a long-haired Peruvian bitch, which arrived too late to compete for a prize; and beneath her are two very fine bull-terriers, exhibited by M. Bertholin. In the right corner are two poodles, French and foreign, named respectively Caniche and Pacha. In the middle, on the right, is the thoroughbred English bull-dog, who carried off the first prize; and on the left is a superb half-bred Newfoundland, named Pathos, which is certainly one of the finest animals in the exhibition. At the bottom we have a dog from the Pyrenees, a greyhound, and a very fine pair of briquets, named Brunette and Milord, belonging to the Count d'Estournelles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.