The Return from Hawking
Near the arched entrance to a stone stairway, a woman on horseback holds a small girl on her lap. As a boy holds the horse's head, a man stands ready to help her dismount as three dogs cluster by the horse's legs. The group portrays Lord Francis Egerton (afterwards the Earl of Ellesmere) with his family and Landseer's related painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1837 (a larger composition that included additional figures at left and large arched entrance gate at center).
Artwork Details
- Title: The Return from Hawking
- Artist: After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
- Engraver: Alexander Hay Ritchie (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1822–1895 New Haven, Connecticut)
- Sitter: Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (British, 1800–1857)
- Date: after 1840
- Medium: Etching and engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 30 3/16 × 24 3/16 in. (76.7 × 61.5 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Harriet McDonald, 1941
- Object Number: 41.91.202
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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