Lot 373

Sir Edwin Landseer Trophy CDV – 1873 Memorial

Estimate: $50 - $400

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Slightly smaller than cabinet card albumen photograph titled The Landseer Trophy, showing a memorial arrangement of taxidermy animals, sporting equipment, and a carved armchair associated with Sir Edwin Landseer. The printed caption states that the group consists of animals shot by Landseer and was designed as a memorial by Edwin Ward, F.Z.S. Published by James Revell, 166 Oxford Street. Circa 1873.

The verso contains a lengthy printed account reprinted from The Graphic, November 8, 1873, describing Landseer as a painter and sportsman and detailing the assembled hunting trophies, including stag heads, deer, a bison, and other game animals arranged around a carved walnut chair presented to Landseer.

Unusual documentary photographic print combining sporting, artistic, and memorial associations relating to the celebrated Victorian animal painter Sir Edwin Landseer.

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