Caption:
Yorkshire terrier, Italian greyhound and pug shown with tennis racquet and balls. Original painting by Charles Burton Barber (1845 – 1894), an English Victorian painter who specialized in paintings of children and their pets. Fine chromolithograph from Cassell's "Illustrated Book of the Dog" 1881. Author Vero Kemball Shaw (1854-1905) wrote many books about dogs and horses, and encyclopedic guides to kennels, stables and poultry yards.