Suspense
An English mastiff, propped on its front legs sits within an interior, looking intently at a closed door. Drops of blood on the floor and a feather torn from a hat suggest that his master has been wounded. Steel gauntlets place the scene in the seventeenth century. Based on a picture exhibited at the British Institution in 1834.
Artwork Details
- Title: Suspense
- Artist: After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
- Engraver: Benjamin Phelps Gibbon (British, Penally, Wales 1802–1851 London)
- Date: 1837
- Medium: Mixed method engraving on chine collé; proof before letters
- Dimensions: Plate: 17 5/8 × 21 7/8 in. (44.8 × 55.5 cm)
Sheet: 21 5/8 × 27 3/4 in. (55 × 70.5 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
- Object Number: 47.30.54
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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