“Rest by the Way” (1829-30) by Sir Edwin Landseer, RA 1802-1873

Rest by the Way

Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73)

1829-30

Source: “Studies and Sketches by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.” (1875): 99

“Lent by Mr. Arthur Lewis, Campden Hill.”

“Of all the pictures by Landseer, ﬁnished and unﬁnished, including his sketches, we never remember to have seen anything at all like that engraved here under the title of 'Rest by the Way.’ It is so singular a scene that one can scarcely suppose it to be merely imaginative, but rather that the artist must have seen something that suggested it.“ [Continued below]

Formatting and text by George P. Landow.

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“A party of deer-stalkers, having killed a stag, have thrown it across the trunk of a leafless tree, while they rest for a time. They seem to be on the brow of a lofty eminence overlooking a glen, with mountains in the distance. The sketch, of which Mrs. Arthur Lewis is the fortunate possessor, is executed in black chalk on grey paper. “What a pity the artist never worked it out as an oil-picture: it would have made a grand as well as a most original work” (100).

Bibliography

“Studies and Sketches by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.” Art-Journal (1875): 97-100. Hathi Trust version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 23 March 2014

Last modified 23 March 2014