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Varty's Series of Domestic & Wild Animals

Print
19th century (published)
Artist/Maker
Day & Haghe (printer)
Thomas Varty (publisher)
Cooper, Thomas Sidney (artist)
Robinson, Frederick (lithographer)
Place of origin
London (published)

Two black and white (collie?) dogs standing alongside a man wearing a tam o' shanter who is sitting on the ground. One of the dogs stands in the centre of the picture, viewed in profile, looking to the left of the picture.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Illustration
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Varty's Series of Domestic & Wild Animals (series title)
  • The Dog (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Coloured lithograph print on paper, backed with woven material.
Paper
Lithography
Colouring
Brief description
'The Dog'. Coloured lithograph print on paper. After Thomas Sidney Cooper & Hill. 'Drawn on stone' by Frederick Robinson. Part of 'Varty's Series of Domestic & Wild Animals'. Printed by Day & Haghe. Published by Thomas Varty, London. 19th century.
Physical description
Two black and white (collie?) dogs standing alongside a man wearing a tam o' shanter who is sitting on the ground. One of the dogs stands in the centre of the picture, viewed in profile, looking to the left of the picture.
Dimensions
  • Height: 2.1 - 27.37cm
  • Width: 34.8cm
Measured by DH 09/08/2010
Marks and inscriptions
  • VARTY'S SERIES OF DOMESIC & WILD ANIMALS. (Series title, centre above illustration.)
  • after T.SCooper & Hill, _F. Robinson, lith. (Below bottom left corner of illustration.)
  • London, Published by THOMAS VARTY, Educational Depository (Centre, below illustration.)
  • Day & Haghe, Lithrs. To the Queen (Below bottom right corner of illustration.)
  • THE DOG. (Title of illustration, centre, below publishing information.)
  • No.1. (Plate number, above top right corner of illustration.)
Object history
See other lithograph illustrations from the series: E.253 to 288-1901.
Production
The print is inscribed as being after T.SCooper & Hill, _F. Robinson, lith.
Subjects depicted
Dog (Animal)
Man
Tam-O'-Shanters
Other number
No. 2 - numbered on sheet
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.253-1901

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O886233/vartys-series-of-domestic--print-thomas-varty/
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