Tethered Rams

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Artist/Maker	Landseer, Edwin Henry (Sir, RA) (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (painted)

Oil on panel depicting a rural scene with a tethered ram in the foreground beside another ram and two sheepdogs. A landscape with a larger group of rams and two figures seated beside a lake extends into the background, with mountains beyond.

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Categories	Paintings Anthropomorphism Images Online Access_to_Images 2003 Agriculture
Object type	Oil painting
Title	Tethered Rams (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Oil on panel Oil Paint Panel Oil Painting
Brief description	Oil painting entitled 'Tethered Rams' by Sir Edwin Landseer. Great Britain, ca. 1839.
Physical description	Oil on panel depicting a rural scene with a tethered ram in the foreground beside another ram and two sheepdogs. A landscape with a larger group of rams and two figures seated beside a lake extends into the background, with mountains beyond.
Dimensions	Estimate height: 43.2cm Estimate width: 54cm Frame dimensions height: 67.8cm Frame dimensions width: 78.6cm Frame dimensions depth: 10.9cm Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Credit line	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Production	The attribution date given is that of the date the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy
Subjects depicted	Ram Landscapes Lakes Farming
Bibliographic references	Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 146 Richard Ormond, Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2005.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	FA.95[O]

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Record created	June 23, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125409/tethered-rams-oil-painting-landseer-edwin-henry/

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