There’s a scene in the 1961 Disney version of 101 Dalmatians where people and their dogs (or dogs and their people) are on promenade: the joke is that both parties are strikingly similar. Do people become like their dogs, or choose dogs that look like them?
That idea of the dog as a projection of the owner comes across in this charming little exhibition at the Wallace Collection. Lord Byron’s Lyon, who he maintained was half wolf and once tried to eat him, is here, looking uncompromisingly independent, if too red to be wolfish.
