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Startled!
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1802-1873
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1808-1880
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wove paper
etching and engraving
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Width: 31.7 cm
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Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: STARTLED. / STARTLED" furnishes a very good example of the artist's power of / drawing animals when quite a boy. The horse is of course the only / object to be noticed in the sketch; and we have before us a fair / opportunity of seeing such works as inborn talents are wont to produce, / before culture and practice have done anything to obscure the clearness with which / such early work shows the artist's originality. For Landseer was but just seventeen / at the time this was drawn; nor had he as yet attempted much besides animals. / The idea is simple enough. The horse grazing in the meadow has suddenly come / upon a snake, and is thoroughly frightened. This is well shown by the raised foreleg, / fixed eyes, and fallen mane. / The etching was done by Mr. Lewis in 1853. //
Inscription: C. G. LEWIS, SCULP.T //
Inscription: STARTLED! / LONDON, VIRTUE & Co. LIMITED //
Inscription: T.O. //
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