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Print

1640-1680 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

In the centre of the picture is a hound dog, viewed in profile, looking to the left, at a cat on top of what appears to be a stone plinth. A spaniel dog stretches up the side of the structure and another cat can be seen below it. On the right of the picture, a male dog sits chained to a wooden structure. NB: The laid paper has a foolscap watermark.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Intaglio print on paper
Brief description
A hound, a spaniel and another chained up dog looking towards a cat. Intaglio print on laid paper (with a foolscap watermark). By Richard Gaywood, after a design by F. Barlow. 1640-1680.
Physical description
In the centre of the picture is a hound dog, viewed in profile, looking to the left, at a cat on top of what appears to be a stone plinth. A spaniel dog stretches up the side of the structure and another cat can be seen below it. On the right of the picture, a male dog sits chained to a wooden structure. NB: The laid paper has a foolscap watermark.
Dimensions
  • Of sheet height: 19.8 - 20cm
  • Of sheet (approx) width: 31.5cm
  • Of plate impression (approx) height: 15.4cm
  • Of plate impression (approx) width: 21.6cm
Measured by DH 04/08/2010
Marks and inscriptions
  • (The paper features a foolscap watermark (a court jester wearing his distinctive bell-tipped multi-pointed cockscomb cap).)
  • F Barlow Invent (In lower-left corner of image.)
  • R Gaywood fecit Lond (Lower-edge, centre of image.)
  • 37[?] (Written in pencil, top-left corner of sheet.)
  • 7 (Written in ink, bottom-left corner of sheet.)
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
E.1212-1908

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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