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Chevy Chace
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1802-1873
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1808-1880
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Width: 31.7 cm
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Inscription: C. G. LEWIS, SCULP.T //
Inscription: CHEVY CHASE. / LONDON, VIRTUE & Co. LIMITED //
Inscription: (Duke of Bedford Coll.) / Sold Christies / 19 Jan. 1951, lot 186 / T.O. /
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: CHEVY CHACE. / OF all the old English ballads with which childhood makes us acquainted, / "Chevy Chace" is the most familiar. It will be remembered how, in / the then unsettled state of the Border, a peaceful hunting party was / changed into a deadly strife, resulting in the deaths of both Earl Percy / of Northumberland and the Scottish Earl Douglas. Here we have merely the hunting / scene; the stag, whose last hour has come, is yet making good use of its horns / against its canine assailants. / This cannot be considered to belong to the first class of Landseer's pictures; yet / it has a place in a collection of engravings like the present, inasmuch as it is a / specimen of his treatment of an historical subject. The bow on the left of the picture / would, we fear, have the string hanging quite loose when strung, and the dog / immediately under the stag's head can hardly be considered satisfactory. / "Chevy Chace" was painted in 1826, the year in which Landseer became an / A.R.A. The original hangs at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, the seat of the Duke / of Bedford. //
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