The studies of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.. : illustrated by sketches from the collection of Her Majesty The Queen and other sources : with a history of his art-life (1877)
Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840-1901, author, Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873. Works. Selections · London : Virtue and Company, Limited · leaf 162
s, of assured loss. Instead of impatient we have patient suffering. The story is told more fully, and the dog’s master shares our sympathy. The picture is often called “ The Shepherd’s Chief Mourner;” but the omission of the word “old” takes away a great part of its meaning. What may be called the… … Fig. 6o. — Shakespeare’s Cliff, Dover (1840). suggestion in the sketch of the dog howling on the shores of a lake, of which we made mention in the course of our remarks upon the year 1828.* “A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society” — a further illustration of the services of the dog to man,…
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 · Animals in art
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