Images

Atalanta wrestling Peleus. A detail from a c. 530 BCE black-figure Chalcidian hydria from Vulci. The two wrestlers have a boar skin in the background, undoubtedly the prize for the victor and a clear link between this event and the Calydonian...

Bear Baiting, painting by Abraham Hondius (1631-1691). Private collection.

Five of Lord Rockingham's hounds in a landscape, oil on canvas painting by George Stubbs, 1762. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.

A Stirling Head ceiling decoration from the Palace inner hall at Stirling Castle, Scotland showing Mary of Guise (1515-1560). The original heads were created c. 1540 and are on display in the castle.

Portrait of an Extraordinary Musical Dog, oil on canvas by English painter Philip Reinagle (1749-1833), 1805. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

"Prisoners from the Front" by American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910 CE) depicts the aftermath of a battle during the American Civil War. It portrays Union officer Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow (1834–1896 CE) capturing several...

Self-Portrait by English artist George Stubbs (l. 1724-1806 CE). Stubbs was a self-trained, independent artist who is best known for his depictions of horses. His shift to a focus on dogs in his work elevated their status by depicting them...

An oil painting of Mary of Guise (l. 1515-1560 CE), Queen of Scotland (r. 1538-1542) as the second wife of James V of Scotland (r. 1513-1542 CE). Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (1500/1510–1575). (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh...

The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by the English artist William Hogarth (l. 1697-1764) featuring the artist and his Pug, Trump, 1745. The work exemplifies the art of the time which increasingly included, or focused exclusively on, dogs...

Dog's Head by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, published by L. Prang & Co. c. 1861-1897. Boston Public Library, Print Department