A Dead Roe

Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73)

1810

Source: “Studies and Sketches by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.” (1875): 353

“Lent by A. Harris, Esq., Limefield, Kirkby Lonsdale”

See Art-Journal commentary below.

Formatting and text by George P. Landow.

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Commentary in the Art-Journal

Priot to 1826 the public saw nothing from the pencil of Landseer that had reference to those special subjects for which it subsequently became so famous. In the preceding year he visited Scotland, and thenceforth its moorlands and its glens, its deer and its bounds, the sportsman and the ‘Keeper’ were made familiar to the Art-world by his hand in a diversity of ways. The sketch on this page is one of the very numerous results arising out of the artist’s first Scottish expedition: the dead roe has fallen to the deer-stalker's rifle; its hind legs, tied together, are thrown across the branch of a tree, and in front of the animal lies the gillie’s cap, and the knife used to complete the deed of death which the rifle-shot may have left unfinished. The drawing of the deer is most truthful, and the sketch is carefully finished, so far as it relates to the animal. [353]

Bibliography

“Studies and Sketches by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.” Art-Journal (1875): 353-54. Hathi Trust version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 23 March 2014

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