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 226
92 those just mentioned, or the “Donkey Driver” (Fig-. 63), the slightest and hastiest of all. In all his works, sketches or finished, we only know of one awkward com- position— a study of deer, in 1820. It was the same in his details as in his great compositions, many of which could be cut up into… … Fig. 80. — A Gipsy Encampment. the artist’s eye; of instances of which this volume is full, from the first sketch on page 1 to the study of three rams’ heads on Plate XXVII., which reminds one of the group in “The Drover’s Departure,” and which for variety and beauty of line and light and shade, is…
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 · Animals in art
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