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The Twa Dogs
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1802-1873
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1808-1880
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wove paper
engraving with etching
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Width: 31.7 cm
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Inscription: T.O. //
Inscription: SIR EDWIN LANDSEER. R.A. PINX.T //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: THE TWA DOGS. / THE picture of which this is an engraving was painted in 1822, but a picture / containing a rather different version of the same subject was exhibited / at the British Institution in 1858. The former has been engraved by / B. P. Gibbon and also by C. G. Lewis, and is to be found in the / Sheepshanks Collection; the latter has not met with an engraver, and we do not / know in whose possession it is. / In the poem of Burns which this picture is designed to illustrate, Caesar, the / Newfoundland, has not been identified with any particular dog; but Luath, the collie, / was the poet's favourite companion. In the picture, however, the Newfoundland is / "Neptune," the late Mr. Gosling's dog, while the collie is unidentified. / "While scour'd awa in land excursion, / An' worry'd ither in diversion; / Until wi' daffin weary grown, / Upon a knowe they sat them down, / And there began a long digression / About the lords o' the creation." / It is not likely a better illustration of these lines will ever be produced. //
Inscription: CHA.S G. LEWIS, SCULP.T //
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