2-799-082 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prize plate, 1844. Horseracing trophy given as a prize at Goodwood Racecourse: '...the touching legend of Llewellyn, who, having met his hound Gelert covered with blood, concludes that he has destroyed his child, and plunges his sword in his heart; the fact subsequently proving that the hound had saved the life of the child, by destroying a wolf, with whose blood he is covered; which wolf, but for the courage and fidelity of the dog, would have killed the infant. The group includes a horse, Llewellyn embracing his child, the dying dog, and the dead wolf'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.