Attributed to Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (1802-1873) The King of the Castle, 1832/3 Oil on panel Signed with monogram 50cm x 66.5cm Literature: Hilary Morgan, Burne-Jones, The Pre-Raphaelites and their Century, two volumes, Peter Nahum London 1989, Vol. I page 23, Vol. II plate 1 King of the Castle relates thematically to A Jack in Office (1833, Victoria and Albert Museum, London), in which a terrier guards a meat barrow. In the present work the terrier seems to have stolen the meat from the pail in the background, rather than acting as a substitute for human authority. Nevertheless he is the only one of the five dogs in the years around 1830 which dramatise the conflict between 'haves' and 'have nots'.
Attributed to Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (1802-1873) The King of the Castle, 1832/3 Oil on panel Signed with monogram 50cm x 66.5cm Literature: Hilary Morgan, Burne-Jones, The Pre-Raphaelites and their Century, two volumes, Peter Nahum London 1989, Vol. I page 23, Vol. II plate 1 King of the Castle relates thematically to A Jack in Office (1833, Victoria and Albert Museum, London), in which a terrier guards a meat barrow. In the present work the terrier seems to have stolen the meat from the pail in the background, rather than acting as a substitute for human authority. Nevertheless he is the only one of the five dogs in the years around 1830 which dramatise the conflict between 'haves' and 'have nots'.
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