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 20

An illustration from 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, leaf 20 — t Landseer had an indoor as well as an outdoor studio, and this was Exeter Change. Here he used to go and sketch from the wild beasts which were then shown there. His earliest etching was made from a sketch by himself of a lion’s head in pro- file, and on the same plate his brother Thomas, his… … Among all his many engravers there is none who has engraved so many of his works as his brother Thomas, and none who has shown such sympathy with his style and touch and feeling. Far more extraordinary as a design, though not as a piece of manipulative skill, is the drawing of a “Lioness and Cubs”…

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