This depiction comes from Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier’s Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes (Volume I). (The link takes you to the 1824 volume.) The authors call it a “Chien de terre neuve ” (Newfoundland dog).
Note the thick, almost feathered coat and the rather bushy tail.
This dog appears to be lightly feathered, but the artist rendition makes it a bit muddled. It could have had a coat like a German shepherd dog, but it appears to have wavy breeches and a bit more coat on the belly and chest.
However its coat actually was, no one would want to see in a modern Labrador retriever.
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