. Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academician, with descriptions and a biographical sketch of the painter . Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873; Dogs in art; Dogs. 78 Sm EDWIN LAND SEER, another is also exhibited, " A Dialogue at Waterloo," which cost them ;^3,ooo to secure the copyright of the picture. It may not unreasonably be inferred that ;^ 100,000 have been expended, in various ways, upon the production of these engrav- ings. Such an amount devoted by one firm to the works of one artist is, probably, without a parallel. But there are other publishers who have also
. Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academician, with descriptions and a biographical sketch of the painter . Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873; Dogs in art; Dogs. 78 Sm EDWIN LAND SEER, another is also exhibited, " A Dialogue at Waterloo," which cost them ;^3,ooo to secure the copyright of the picture. It may not unreasonably be inferred that ;^ 100,000 have been expended, in various ways, upon the production of these engrav- ings. Such an amount devoted by one firm to the works of one artist is, probably, without a parallel. But there are other publishers who have also sent forth engravings after this painter. As complete a list of these engravings as Messrs. Graves could procure will be found in the Appendix to this volume. Landseer, it is reported, has left a very large property; so large, if the information which has reached me from good authority be correct, as will astonish the public if the statement be verified. Whatever it may prove to be, however, there can be no doubt that his wealth arose less from what he was paid for his pictures than from the specu- lative enterprise of print-publishers, who, as a rule, considered no sum too large to obtain the privilege of engraving a popular subject. And it is by the wide circulation of these works that the fame of the painter has extended over the world; and it must be by them, chiefly, that the knowledge of his genius will be transmitted to all future generations. His "life's fitful fever" has passed away, but the results of that life remain with us in scenes of joyousness or of sadness ; for we laugh at his " Monkey who had seen the World" and his "Uncle Tom and his Wife," as we sigh over his "Shepherd's Chief Mourner" and " The Random ; The great lesson he taught mankind in the majority of his works is a noble one; and it has had, as it should have, power to inculcate kindness to the dumb animals, which have lost in him a warm and sym
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