Newfoundland dog saving a boy from drowning in the River Tyne, England, 18th century. The dog has the boy in its mouth as it emerges on the river bank. Anecdote from Thomas Bewick’s History of Quadrupeds, 1792. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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