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Tethered Rams

Oil Painting
ca. 1839 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleTethered Rams (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel
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
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
Accession number
FA.95[O]

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Record createdJune 23, 2006
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