26 ) The French Bulldog "Qui Qui" of Amersham, photogravure after Maud Alice Earl (English, 1863-1943)
A photogravure of the French Bulldog "Qui Qui" of Amersham owned by Mrs Pelham Clinton, after a painting by Maud Alice Earl (English, 1864-1943). This artist's proof is signed in pencil, bottom left, Maud Earl. Lettered top right Published on December 1st, 1913, by The Berlin Photographic Company Berlin “ London W 149 New Bond Street “ New York 305 Madison Avenue. It is from the "Whose Dog Art Thou?" portfolio. The series included a Cocker Spaniel Peregrine owned by the Countess of Lonsdale, the French Bulldog's Ch. Qui Qui of Amersham and Ch. Dinette, owned by Mrs Charles Waterlow, the Pekingese, Rosalie and Ch. Wingerworth Pi - Chi, Wingerworth Kou “ Kou, owned by Mrs. Philip Hunloke, Sealyham Terriers, and the Wire Hair Fox Terrier "Comedian", owned by Her Grace the Duchess of Newcastle. English, 1913. The photogravure is illustrated in "The French Bulldog: Heritage & Art" by Nick Waters, page 44 The creation of the photogravure plate was a complicated process requiring work by a photographer and experienced master-engraver. First, a copper plate was coated with a light-sensitive gelatine tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high-quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph. It is a manual process leave a plate impression in the paper. The quality of the photogravure depends on the masterly execution by the engraver.

27 ) Pekingese painted silk screen, by artist Maud Earl (1864-1943).
This is one of the screens painted on silk whilst Earl was living in New York and exhibited at the Jacques Seligman Galleries 51st Street. 14th December 1927 - 14TH January 1928. It was exhibit number 14 titled "Pekes and Paroqurt" and was lent by Mrs George Blumenthal. The Blumenthal's were major art buyers. In the year they purchased this work by Maud Earl 1928 George Blumenthal gave $1,000,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was its President from 1934 until his death in 1941. The screen was illustrated in The Illustrated London News of August the 11th 1923, in an article “Portraits of Pets as Wall Decoration: Maud Earl Panels”, and titled “Mrs George Blumenthals’s “Pekes” a Gold Screen”. This is one of the screens painted on silk whilst Earl was living in New York and exhibited at the Jacques Seligman Galleries 51st Street. 14th December 1927 - 14TH January 1928. It was exhibit number 14 titled "Pekes and Paroqurt" and was lent by Mrs George Blumenthal. The Blumenthal's were major art buyers. In the year they purchased this work by Maud Earl 1928 George Blumenthal gave $1,000,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was its President from 1934 until his death in 1941.

28 ) Oil on canvas of "Champion Old Hall Beatrice" by Maud Earl (English, 1864-1943)
An image of Princess de Montglyon and Countess d'Argenteau famous "Champion Old Hall Beatrice" standing in snow covered landscape by Maud Earl. The painting was famously reproduced in Compte Henri de Bylandt (H.A. graff van Bylandt) "Les Races de Chiens" / "Dogs of all Nations" published in Brussels in 1897.