[ London Times ]
This newspaper, most correctly known simply as The Times, began publication in 1785 and continues to this day.
The July 30, 1834 edition of The Times carried the following announcement that the statue of Bashaw, the Landseer Newf owned by the Earl of Dudley and the subject of a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer as well as the subject of this statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, is available for public viewing:
BASHAW. — The late Earl of DUDLEY's favourite NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, in mosaic sculpture, valued at 5,000 guineas; also Wyatt's splendid horses. To be seen daily at 28, Old Bond-street. Admittance 1s.
It seems quite likely that Wyatt is exhibiting the statue of Bashaw in an attempt by the sculptor to recoup some of the cost of the statue, for which Wyatt had never been paid. The Earl of Dudley died before it was completed, and the executors of his estate refused to pay what they considered the exorbitant cost of the statue.
This is the second time Bashaw showed up in The Times (London): in 1829, the paper ran a "lost Newfoundland" advertisement for Bashaw, who apparently had slipped away from his owner, the 1st Earl Dudley. (Bashaw was found, we know, because the statue of him wasn't begun until two years after the publication of the notice of his disappearance.) Bashaw will be mentioned again in the Times, in a series of advertisements from a dog dealer selling puppies who, he claims, were sired by Bashaw and, in one of those ads, he claims to be selling "the Young Bashaw" himself (presumably a son of the original, as by that point the original Bashaw would have been at least 10 years old).
