[Stag in Cart]
Far better known in his own day as an athlete and a sportsman than as a photographer, Ross was, even in his sixties, judged the finest shot in Scotland. He described deerstalking as "the most fascinating of all British field-sports." Keen on the challenge of pitting his knowledge, stamina, and experience against his quarry's superior senses of smell, sight, and hearing, Ross nevertheless possessed a gentlemanly concern for avoiding undue suffering in his kills and for maintaining the forest.
Here, Ross photographed this trophy with a remarkable directness, making an image unsettlingly unromanticized in its four-square presentation and extreme realism. The stag, antlers pointed toward the viewer, seems not only to spill out of the tilted cart but out of the picture itself.
Here, Ross photographed this trophy with a remarkable directness, making an image unsettlingly unromanticized in its four-square presentation and extreme realism. The stag, antlers pointed toward the viewer, seems not only to spill out of the tilted cart but out of the picture itself.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Stag in Cart]
- Artist: Horatio Ross (British, Rossie Castle, near Montrose, Scotland 1801–1886 Scotland)
- Date: ca. 1858
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: Image: 26.7 x 32.6 cm (10 1/2 x 12 13/16 in.)
Mount: 35.7 x 43.6 cm (14 1/16 x 17 3/16 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.16
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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