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The Stable
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(artist)
1802-1873
(engraver)
1808-1880
(publisher)
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wove paper
etching
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Width: 31.7 cm
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gift, 2023
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Inscription: The Road from Leye (?) / to aux la Chafelle //
Inscription: SIR EDWIN LANDSEER. R.A. PINX.T //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: THE STABLE. / THE Stable," like "Oxen at the Tank," is one of the sketches which / Landseer brought home with him from his continental tour in 1840, / and is perhaps the best known of them all. It is remarkable that / none of these sketches were afterwards worked out on canvas; and it / has already been suggested that they were taken merely with a view to amusement / and the filling up of an idle half-hour here and there. / There is a special beauty and value in a sketch of this kind, for it is only in such / that the natural taste of the artist is best distinguished. He may throw his best / efforts into a work which he knows is to bring him fame and fortune; but then he / must find it hard to avoid considering, at the expense of his own, the tastes of those / whose eyes he is painting to please. And so a certain amount of formality will very / often creep in; so small as only to be discerned by comparison with a piece executed / under circumstances like the present. Landseer was an extremely natural painter, so / that we do not expect to find any marked contrast between this and a more elaborate / picture; yet here who can help noticing that complete rendering of animal expression / by a few skilful touches for which he is so justly famous? / Of all the engravings of Sir Edwin Landseer's works produced by Mr. C. G. Lewis, / perhaps not one is better than the present; the horses are unusually well reproduced. / The original is in the collection of George Gurney, Esq., Eastbourne. //
Inscription: C. G. LEWIS, SCULP.T //
Inscription: THE STABLE. / LONDON, VIRTUE & Co. LIMITED. //
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