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Based on a picture exhibited in 1833 now at Tate Britain, Landseer's first composition to treat the life of red deer in the Scottish Highlands. A stag is shown being brought down by two deerhounds in a fast-flowing mountain stream. One dog is wounded and the other has fastened onto the deer's ear.
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Title: The Mountain Torrent
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)
Publisher:
Williams, Stevens, Williams, and Co. (New York)
Date: 1856
Medium: Mixed media engraving on chine collé
Dimensions:
Plate: 23 13/16 × 29 5/16 in. (60.5 × 74.5 cm)
Sheet: 27 15/16 × 35 1/16 in. (71 × 89 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Object Number: 47.30.22
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