A battle-scarred terrier with cropped ears is sitting on the doorstep of a butcher's shop. Steel engraving by H. Beckwith after E. H. Landseer.

  • Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873.
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40073i
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Description

"Low life" is the counterpart to "High Life" (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 40071i) with the dog representing the absent owner's tough plebeian values

The accessories of a butcher's shop are scattered about: the butcher's block with a knife and a bottle on it, a top hat and worn boots, beer tankard and clay pipe and his whip and keys hanging on a hook

Publication/Creation

London : [publisher not identified]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 24 x 18.9 cm

Lettering

Low life. From the picture in the Vernon Gallery. E. Landseer, painter. H. Beckwith, engraver

References note

R. Ormond, Sir Edwin Landseer, Tate Gallery London 1982, p. 99-100

Reference

Wellcome Collection 40073i

Reproduction note

Engraving after the oil painting "Low life", 1829, by E. H. Landseer in the Tate Gallery

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