Edwin Landseer
Dogs
One of the finest animal painters of all
time, Sir Edwin
Henry Landseer (1802-1873) is renowned
for his dogs, which often seem to have human qualities.
Fabulously successful and greatly beloved by the public, Landseer
profited more from selling the rights to his engravings than he did
from the actual paintings on which they were based. The steel engravings below
come from The Works of Sir Edwin
Landseer: Illustrated by Forty-Four
Steel Engravings and About Two Hundred Woodcuts from Sketches in
the Collection of her Majesty the Queen and Other Sources: With a
History of his Art-Life by W. Cosmo Monkhouse. This work was
published by George Virtue, London, in
1875 , shortly after Landseer's death and
is regarded as one of the finest Victorian-era collections of his
work. These gilt-edged plates are printed
on very heavy stock, and are very white and clean. Prints are trimmed in the photos only; all titles
and
plate markings are present.
Size: 14.25 x
10.25 inches
All
prints are original.
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