Asses Drinking, from "Illustrated London News" March 13, 1858 Henry Linton Ansdell's Spanish subject won a prize at the Glasgow Art Union in 1857 and was reproduced as a full-page wood engraving in the "Illustrated London News." Accompanying text praised the artist as: "an animal painter [who] has long commanded a high [and] lately prosecuted his art in newer and larger fields…In Spain, he has studied character, climate, and colour, in scenes equally novel and suggestive, presenting a mine of wealth to the eye of the artist; and all these essentials to pictorial effect he has admirabl
Asses Drinking, from "Illustrated London News" March 13, 1858 Henry Linton Ansdell's Spanish subject won a prize at the Glasgow Art Union in 1857 and was reproduced as a full-page wood engraving in the "Illustrated London News." Accompanying text praised the artist as: "an animal painter [who] has long commanded a high [and] lately prosecuted his art in newer and larger fields…In Spain, he has studied character, climate, and colour, in scenes equally novel and suggestive, presenting a mine of wealth to the eye of the artist; and all these essentials to pictorial effect he has admirably combined in his picture entitled "Asses Drinking." Linton was one of the finest wood engravers who worked for the "Illustrated London News.". Asses Drinking, from "Illustrated London News". After Richard Ansdell (British, Liverpool 1815–1885 Franborough, Hampshire). March 13, 1858. Wood engraving. Henry Linton (British, London 1815–1899 Kingston-upon-Thames). Prints
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