Shoeing the horse.
Mezzotint with blue tinted sky (1848), based on "Shoeing" by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, exhibited 1844. It is also called "Shoeing the mare" and "Shoeing the bay mare" and has been reproduced many times. The original oil is in the Tate Gallery, London, and "was com...
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| Summary: | Mezzotint with blue tinted sky (1848), based on "Shoeing" by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, exhibited 1844. It is also called "Shoeing the mare" and "Shoeing the bay mare" and has been reproduced many times. The original oil is in the Tate Gallery, London, and "was commissioned by Jacob Bell who bequeathed it to the Tate Gallery in 1859. According to the Tate description: "It portrays Bell's mare 'Old Betty'. Bell originally wanted Landseer to depict the mare with her foal. However, Landseer repeatedly put off the commission. By the time he was ready to paint 'Old Betty' the foal had outgrown its mother. In introducing a donkey into the composition Landseer was using a device popular with many other animal painters, whereby the donkey's rough coat is contrasted with the sleekness of the horse." - Tate Gallery |
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| Item Description: | "Shoeing. In Mezzotint, by G. Lewis, after E. Landseer; size, 27 inches by 35 high; Prints 3ℓ 3s -- Proofs, 5ℓ 5s -- Before Letters, 8ℓ 8s -- Artist's Proofs, 10ℓ 10s. Moon." - page 12, "A catalogue of the new books and new engravings published in Great Britain in 1848, with their sizes, prices, and publishers' names. Reprinted, with corrections and additions, from 'Bents literary advertiser.' London: Thomas Hodgson, Aldine Chambers, Paternoster Row." In "Bents literary advertiser", volume 9. It is listed in "A catalogue of an exhibition of the engraved works of the late Sir Edwin Landseer" (no date, but after 1873), as no. 331, "Shoeing ...", engraved by C.G. Lewis 1848, "Portraits of Old Betty and Laura." 'Laura' was the name of the dog in the foreground. A copy of this engraving sold at Christie, Manson & Woods auction house July 6, 1908. A copy of the unsigned proof sold on April 24, 1893, also at Christie, Manson, & Woods. |
| Physical Description: | 1 sheet : illustration ; 67 x 88 cm |