MANNER OF GEORGE STUBBS | A SPANIEL AND TOY TERRIER IN A LANDSCAPE

W. Secord, Dog Painting, 1840-1940: A Social History of the Dog in Art (Suffolk, England, 1992) p. 127, plate 91

Mario would always tell the story of how this painting depicted him as a black spaniel and his brother Giuseppe as a toy terrier in "the glorious Staten Island countryside."