Anthony Van Dyck - Children of Charles I, 1637.

 Sources we mention

  

John Caius, Of English Dogges, 1576.
William Shakespeare, Henry V,  ca 1599.

Christopher Wase, Cynegeticon, 1654.

“A lion hunt.” De Vos, 1603

Sir Henry Lee and his dog, Bevis.

#6- The First Dog

Meet the English mastiff, the creature who made "dog" into the generic English term for all domestic canines.

“Mastiffs baiting a bear.” Richard Pynson, 1521.

17th-century glass at Lyme Hall depicting the mastiff of Sir Piers Legh (1415).

Thomas Killigrew, after Van Dyck