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The Stag at Bay
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1802-1873
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1807-1876
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printed in black
wove paper
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Width: 31.8 cm
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Inscription: CHA.S MOTTRAM. SCULP.T //
Inscription: THE STAG AT BAY. / LONDON, VIRTUE & Co. LIMITED. //
Inscription: Ken Wood / T.O. / t.o. /
Inscription: Exh RA, 1846 (165) //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: THE STAG AT BAY. / HERE we have before us some of this artist's best work; for the / subject united Highland scenery and surroundings, such as he loved / best to paint, with those emotions of the nobler animals which he of / all others could well portray. A fine stag has been brought to bay in the shallow water at the edge of a Highland lake, after a long chase, by two of / the celebrated Scotch deerhounds. One of them lies disabled before him: the / other is barking its loudest defiance, yet hesitates to rush in; though by the half- / frightened yet still determined look of its eye we see it feels the crisis has come. / It has often been objected that the expressions of Landseer's animals are too / human; by the study of such a picture as this the objection is fully understood, and, / we think, fully answered. The execution is faultless; and if we cannot bear to gaze / long on the canvas, it is because our feelings of pity will not permit us to contemplate / unmoved a scene of intense animal suffering depicted by so masterly a hand. The / case might be different did the reality come before us in the full excitement of the / chase. / This picture was painted in 1846, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in the / same year. The original now belongs to Lady E. Pringle. It has been engraved by / Thomas Landseer in 1848, by A. Zobel, and in the present instance by Charles / Mottram. //
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