Highland Nurses
An injured stag lies on a rock as two deer lick his wounded back and others watch, with three grouse in the foreground at right. Based on a picture shown at the Royal Academy in 1856. The subject derives from an incident that resulted when Landseer fired a random shot to empty his barrel after a day of deer stalking, and unknowingly wounded a stag. At midnight the keeper called the artist and to witness the moonlit scene shown here.
Artwork Details
- Title: Highland Nurses
- Artist: After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, London 1802–1873 London)
- Engraver: Thomas Landseer (British, London 1795–1880 London)
- Publisher: Henry Graves & Co. (British, active 1827–1926)
- Date: May 29, 1858
- Medium: Etching, engraving and stipple
- Dimensions: Plate: 28 × 34 3/8 in. (71.1 × 87.3 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
- Object Number: 59.592.18
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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