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Comical Dogs
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1802-1873
(engraver)
1808-1880
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wove paper
etching and engraving
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Width: 31.7 cm
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Inscription: SIR EDWIN LANDSEER. R.A. DEL.T //
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: COMICAL DOGS. / THIS picture is plainly not one of those in which the artist has so forcibly / expressed by canine types the weak or strong points of human nature; / but, on the contrary, the object here is simply to make the dogs look / ridiculous and to cause a laugh. The simplicity of Landseer's disposition / is well known, both from his pictures and from the actual records of his life, and / none but a mind thus disposed could possibly have produced a series of studies so / free from overgrown sentiment as are his. / The terrier, with the Scotch cap over his head and the mull for snuff at his feet, is / a queer little object. The lady's cap is most becoming; but, true to her sex, she / would clearly be better pleased to be holding the light cigarette in her teeth than the / stem of the heavier pipe. / "Comical Dogs" was exhibited at the British Institution in 1836, and was part / of the late Mr. Sheepshank's gift to the nation in 1857. It has been engraved only / by Mr. Lewis. Within the last year or two "Little Strollers," the finished study for / the picture, has been engraved by Mr. T. O. Barlow, A.R.A. //
Inscription: C. G. LEWIS, SCULP.T //
Inscription: COMICAL DOGS. //
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