Sujet

The Dead Rabbit - painted by J. Clark - from the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1857. Creator: Harvey Orrin Smith.

Légende

The Dead Rabbit - painted by J. Clark - from the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1857. 'The artist has...so successfully rendered the expression of the boys' regret for the fate of their favourite that we can scarcely refrain from testifying our sympathy with their simple grief; especially as their disappointment must be so much increased to find that poor "bunny" will no more be able to nibble any of the fresh green fodder they have provided with such solicitude, and so plentifully . There is a touch of humour, though, in the way in which the bigger boy is holding up the rabbit. In order to ascertain if their pet be really quite dead, he holds it up by the ears in the most unceremonious and boylike manner possible...the effect is gained by an amount of stippling which leaves a certain illusive indistinctness, or "muzziness" if you will'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_272

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

19,7Mo (2,2Mo) / 19,1cm x 25,8cm / 2258 x 3050 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal people male boy boys child children pet arts painting art British rabbit color dead death cellar century gallery Britain kitsch newspapers press concept exhibition B&W engraved engraving art gallery Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News wood engraving ILN John Heaviside Clark newspaper art centre 19th-century Harvey Orrin Smith Smith Harvey Orrin H. Orrin-Smith & Co Orrin-Smith H. & Co Orrin Smith Harvey Orrin-Smith Harvey Harvey Orrin-Smith Clark John Heaviside