Original 19th-century English copper engraving after Sir Edwin Landseer's painting "Scene at Abbotsford": two dogs, a Scottish deerhound and a pointer, among the armor and trophies of the entrance hall at Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott. Printed on applied China paper, with wide margins.
Original 19th-century English copper engraving after Sir Edwin Landseer's painting "Scene at Abbotsford": two dogs, a Scottish deerhound and a pointer, among the armor and trophies of the entrance hall at Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott. Printed on applied China paper, with wide margins.
Landseer visited Abbotsford in Scott's lifetime and portrayed his dogs several times; the subject brought together the two great names of Scottish romanticism and was among the most reproduced of his work. The lower margin gives the publishers as R. Jennings, in the Poultry, London, and Goupil, in the Galerie Vivienne, Paris.
Medium: Copper engraving on applied China paper (chine collé)
Artist / after: Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.
Date: 19th century
Source: Published in London by R. Jennings and in Paris by Goupil, Galerie Vivienne
Dimensions: Plate mark 8.6 x 6.1 in (21.8 x 15.5 cm); sheet 16.5 x 10.8 in (42 x 27.5 cm)
Condition: Good. Wide-margined sheet, somewhat toned and with an isolated stain in the left margin; the image clean and well printed.