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 74
In appearance and attitude it is not unlike the picture of 1824, which was Brutus the younger, the artist’s own dog, an engraving from which, by Thomas Landseer, appeared in the Annals of Sporting. In the 1824 picture the scene is the interior of a stable, and the object of Brutus’s attention is an… … Fig. 25. — Milking-time (1818). more widely, the “ impending quarrel” in this case would be much more serious than that in our woodcut. Still farther removed from violent action is the clever drawing of “A Pigsty” (Fig. 24), and it only needs a remark here as the last example we have to give of a…
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 · Animals in art
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