LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Size Notes:

48 x 60.5 cm.; 18? x 23? in.

Exhibited:

Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Landseer and His World, 5 February – 12 March 1972, no. 40;; Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Sir Edwin Landseer, 25 October 1981 – 3 January 1982, no. 70;; London, Tate Gallery, Sir Edwin Landseer, 10 February – 12 April 1982, no. 70;; Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, The Monarch of the Glen. Landseer in the Highlands, 14 April – 10 July 2005. 

Literature:

R. Ormond et al., Sir Edwin Landseer, exh. cat., Philadelphia and London 1981, pp. 116–17, cat. no. 70;; R. Ormond, Monarch of the Glen. Landseer in the Highlands, exh. cat., Edinburgh 2005, pp. 25 and 129.

Provenance:

The artist's studio sale, London, Christie's, 9 May 1874, lot 256 (as 'Scene in a Highland Bothie'), for £89–5s. to Agnew; ; Charles William Mansel Lewis (1845–1931), Stradey Castle, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire;; Thence by descent.