A Jack in Office
Oil Painting
ca. 1833 (painted)
ca. 1833 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
The title is a slang expression for a pompous government official. It is a pun on the principal character: a Jack Russell terrier. A critic described how 'the well-fed and much caressed dog…keeps others from testing the food of which he has had too much'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A Jack in Office (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil painting depicting numerous breeds of dog entitled 'A Jack in Office' by Edwin Henry Landseer. Great Britian, ca. 1833. |
| Physical description | Oil painting depicting numerous breeds of dog in an office |
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| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | The title is a slang expression for a pompous government official. It is a pun on the principal character: a Jack Russell terrier. A critic described how 'the well-fed and much caressed dog…keeps others from testing the food of which he has had too much'. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 144-45 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.94[O] |
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| Record created | May 13, 2003 |
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