Portrait of the celebrated greyhound Snowdrop with a hare. Owned by Rev. Francis Best of South Dalton, Yorkshire. Son of Major Topham’s dog Snowball, and winner of four cups at Malton Coursing Meeting. Copperplate engraving after a painting by Clifton Tomson from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1812.

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