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 285
tied the deer. It was, as we have formerly observed, the only animal, the object of sport, in whose fate he sympathized. Rats might be killed, and a good riddance to them ; partridges and pheasants were shot, and there was an end to them ; cats and rabbits and hares might suggest an exclamation of… … was an incident of grandeur as well as beauty, as a man it was a sight of almost pure pain at the sad havoc of a noble creature — little less than a catastrophe. Nevertheless, the artist was king of all, and compelled him to draw the match, the incident, and the catastrophe, with the same faultless…
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 · Animals in art
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