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Famous pets of famous people

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Eleanor Lewis
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The book assembles illustrated vignettes and anecdotes about the companion animals kept by prominent public figures, showing how pets figure in domestic life, literary circles, artistic studios, and public pageantry. Chapters arrange examples by context—regional celebrities, writers and artists, aristocracy and royalty, military units, schools, and sculptural or architectural memorials—while recurring threads highlight human affection for animals, distinctive pet personalities, and practical interactions such as care, mourning, and ceremonial roles. Short profiles, images, and brief narratives combine affectionate detail with broader reflection on the cultural places occupied by companion animals among well-known individuals.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Miss Maud Howe and her dog Sambo Frontis.
Statue of Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh 17
Sir Walter Scott and his bull-terrier, Camp 21
Rab 25
“Baby Rab” 26
“Pity the sorrows of us homeless dogs” 27
Dr. John Brown, Dr. Peddie, and Dandie 28
Drinking-fountain monument to Greyfriars’ Bobby, Edinburgh 29
Greyfriars’ Bobby 31
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe at home 38
Mrs. Stowe’s dog Punch 40
Mrs. Stowe’s dog Missy 41
Mrs. Phelps’s dog Daniel Deronda 42
Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle and Nero 45
Lord Byron and his dog Lyon 56
Sir Horace Walpole and Patapan 59
Charles Dickens’s pet raven, Grip 62
Bushie, the favorite dog of Charlotte Cushman 66
Mouche, Victor Hugo’s cat 68
General Muff, Miss Mary L. Booth’s cat 69
Nelly, the dog of Edmund Yates 71
Frederick the Great and his sister Wilhelmina 78
Prince Bismarck and his dogs 81
Queen Elizabeth in her peacock gown 86
Mary, Queen of Scots, at the age of ten 87
Lady Margaret Lenox, mother of Lord Darnley 88
Children of Charles I. with spaniels 90
Children of Charles I.; Prince Charles and his mastiff 91
James Stuart, Duke of Richmond, son of Esme Stuart 95
Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I., and her pets 98
Princess Mary, daughter of Charles I. 101
Charles II. and pet spaniel, at Dawney Court, Bucks, seat of the Duchess of Cleveland 104
Princess Amelia and her dog 105
Princess Augusta, daughter of George III.}
Princess Amelia, daughter of George III.}		 107
A favorite at Marlborough House 109
Pet spaniel of Louis XVI., companion of his daughter “Madame Royale,” in prison 111
Pet Italian greyhound of Marie Louise 112
Carlo Alberto and his favorite horse 113
Victor Emmanuel and his dog 115
Prince Henry, eldest son of James I. 120
Prince Rupert with his white dog Boy 127
Puritan caricature of the death of Prince Rupert’s white hound Boy 131
Miss Bowles 136
“Friends now, Pussy!” 137
The painter Hogarth and his dog Trump 139
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer at thirteen 141
Hare drawn by the boy Albrecht Dürer 142
Two Venetian ladies and their pets 143
Section of dome 145
Ducks 146
Fragment 147
Hens and chickens 147
Two of Gottfried Mind’s cats 148
The Cavalier’s pets 149
The dustman’s dog 151
Countess, the sleeping bloodhound 151
The critics 152
Paul Pry, a member of the Humane Society 153
An old monarch 155
Wasp, Rosa Bonheur’s pet terrier 157
The horse fair 158
The lion at home 159
Glen and his master at Etretât 160
Glen 161
Mr. Chase and Kat-te 162
Lilla, Cruikshank’s little dog 163
Lady Tankerville, who hid her kittens in the head of Story’s statue of Peabody 165
Entrance and window of the sculptor Ezekiel’s studio in Rome 168
Bimbo, one of the sculptor Story’s pets 169
Cat-headed Egyptian goddess, Bast or Bubastis 174
Bas-relief of Whittington and his cat 175
Cardinal Richelieu, front face and sides 179
The two-legged cat that belonged to Dr. Hill of Princeton College 183
Sally 193
Cowper’s tame hares 199
Helix Desertorum 204
Bobby, the dog who would be a soldier 211
The deer that marched ahead 220
The Welsh Fusileers’ goat 221
Old Abe 223
Love leading the orchestra 232
The elephants of Germanicus 232
The cat showman 233
Pinta and his mule Marco 234
Help, the railway dog of England 235
Prof. Bonnetty’s troupe 237
The Brighton Cats 239
A cat with a conscience 241
“Tell me thy secret, Beppo” 242
Sculpture of greyhounds in the Vatican 248
Sculpture of thieving monkey in the Vatican 249
Stag in alabaster in the Vatican 250
Pliny’s doves; a mosaic in the Capitol at Rome 251
Patrician or plebeian? 253
The chimera; Etruscan sculpture in the Bargello at Florence 254