Jack in Office
After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer British
Printer Leighton Brothers British
Not on view
This print was published in Francis Palgrave's "Gems of English Art of this Century: Twenty-four Pictures from National Collections," George Routledge & Sons, London and New York, 1869, p. 1. The print shows a fat Jack Russell seated on a cart with two bowls beside him looking haughtily down at other thin dogs who cringe below and hope for food. A commentary on the behavior of people who after being elevated to a position of power use it simply to enrich themselves rather than to help those they were elected to represent.
