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High Life
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1802-1873
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active 1830-1900 (Life dates)
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wove paper
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Width: 23.4 cm
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Inscription: H. BECKWITH. SCULP.T //
Inscription: HIGH LIFE. / LONDON, VIRTUE & Co. LIMITED. //
Inscription: T.O. /
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: HIGH LIFE. / A MOST aristocratic deerhound, seated at his ease, and, as many would / venture to say, indulging in a train of thought, forms the canine ideal of / "High Life." We see, by looking through the window, that the apart- / ment is in a large castle; and by the trifles scattered over the table it / seems to belong especially to the knight or baron whose the castle is. / The dog in this picture is supposed by some to be a portrait of Sir Walter Scott's / celebrated Maida, to whose aversion to artists allusion has before been made; yet / Maida was very old when Landseer first saw him, and of a different colour. / "High Life" was painted in 1829, when the artist was only twenty-seven years of / age. It was exhibited at the British Institution in 1831, and was presented to the / nation by the late R. Vernon Esq., in 1847. R. J. Lane, A.R.A., lithographed it in / 1834, and it has since been engraved by C. C. Hollyer and H. S. Beckwith. //
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