Old Engravings

Old Engravings

Frederick II of Prussia, surnamed "the Great", was born at Berlin, 1712. When about 22 years of age (1734) Frederick resided at Rheimburg, where he held a sort of small literary court, and devoted his leisure to the study of music and french literature, for both of which he had a keen and lasting admiration. He corresponded with Voltaire (who afterwards, in 1752, visited Berlin), and studied with much sympathy the philosophical doctrines which were to play such an important part in the century.
Gerome has painted the Great King at an advanced period of his life, after he had made his mark in Europe ; he has for a moment thrown aside his political and military concerns, and returned to his early love - Music. Carlyle informs us that Frederick was neither a graceful nor efficient player on the flute, but what he lacked in refinement he made up in enthusiasm.
The artist has adorned the King's appartment with a bust of his old friend Voltaire who smiles amusedly at the frivolity, as he would term it, of his kingly acquaintance. The general untidiness of the books and the presence of the fine greyhounds are in keeping with the king's recorded love for dogs, who, unmolested, ranged through the palaces wherever the King resided, and where the manners of the camp prevailed.
private collection

This print is by well known British Dog Artist Arthur WARDLE, from the year 1893 and was printed in Great-Britain.
private collection

Coursing - The Turn
Small Mid 19th Century Original Steel Engraving
private collection

The Death
Small Mid 19th Century Original Steel Engraving
private collection

Engraving titled - Lord Stradbroke's "Manto" and Mr Holes's "Mocking-Bird"
Published in the Illustrated London News Feb. 22, 1851.

Lord Lurgan's Greyhound "Master M'Grath"
Engraving published in March 11th. 1871
by Saml CARTER
private collection

The New Love
Date printed : March 10th. 1883 by Artist C.T. GARLAND
private collection

Captain Daintree's "King Cob"
the first influential public stud dog. Whelped in 1938, he won the Newmarket Cup
in 1940 and the St Leger at Barton-on-Humber in 1841
private collection

Jack, Sam, Shot and Puss
dated 1892
This painting has gained the artist much honor in the french saon, where it was purchased by its present owner. Three sporting dogs, a pointer, a greyhound and a setter, priviliged visitors, have been temporarily admitted to their master's bed-room, where enthroned on her chair unconcernedly sits the domestic cat. The array of powder-flasks, gun and game bag which hang in the niche behind the cabinet, bespeak the master of the house a votary of "La Chasse".
Louis Eugene Lambert was born at Paris in 1835. He was a pupil of Delacroix. Was decorated in 1875 "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur".
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