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Pair of Setter bronze bookends after Pierre Jules Mene (French, 1810 - 1879) A pair of Setter bronze bookends after Pierre Jules Mene (French, 1810 - 1879). The squatting dogs are those from the artist's 'Chienne de Meute avec ses Petits', which was exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1859. See "Pierre - Jules Mene Catalogue raisonne by Michel Poletti & Alain Richarme. The squatting dogs appear again in the Susse Freres "P. J. Mene and Auguste Cain" catalogue of 1902-1912, in the 'Chienne de Meute avec ses Petits' group and another "Groupe chien au repos".
Unsigned, French, circa 1900.
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Artist: Pierre Jules Mene |
Yr: 1900 |
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English Setter photogravure from The Sportsman's Calendar published by The Berlin Photographic Company after Maud Alice Earl (English, 1864-1943). “August - "The Twelfth ... Setter" “ a photogravure of a brace of English Setters published 1906, as part of The Sportsman's Calendar by The Berlin Photographic Company after the painting by Maud Alice Earl (English, 1864-1943)
The Sportsman's Calendar featured twelve of Maud Earl's works, January - "A Check .... Beagles"; February - "... Spaniel"; March - "Nipped in the Bud - Wire-Haired Terrier"; April - "Raw Material - Welsh Springer Puppies"; May - "Visiting The Coops - Ilchester Retriever"; June - "The Long Vacation - Foxhounds"; July - "Near The Holt - Otterhounds"; August - "The Twelfth ... Setter"; September - "Brace-Work ... Pointers"; October - "A Busy Team ... Cockers"; November - "Full Cry ... Foxhounds"; December - "Tender and True ... Retriever".
English, 1906.
The Sportsman's Calendar edition was limited to just 100 sets, each signed by Maud Earl, and came in a case designed so that a different that a different photogravure could be displayed for on month of the year.
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Artist: Maud Earl |
Yr: 1906 |
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Very rare 19th century cast iron garden Setter / hound seat / bench by the James Stephens Iron Works of Galway 1851. A very rare mid-19th century cast iron garden Setter / hound seat / bench by the James Stephens Iron Works of Galway, dated 1851. With grape decoration to the back, the side supports of vines and serpent, and the arms with Setter / hound head and paw feet. Irish 1851
This is a variant of a casting design produced circa 1844, by the Coalbrookdale Foundry. The Coalbrookdale design, number 17597, is the second oldest seat design registered and patented by the Foundry at the Public Records Office, on 6th April 1844. It further appears as seat No. 9 in their 1875 Castings Catalogue, Section III, page 249
James Stephens’ foundry was on Merchant’s Road and they were responsible in 1851 for the cast-ironwork Lough Athalia Bridge, (one of the finest of its kind in Ireland), and iron work to the roof of the Galway terminus.
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Yr: 1851 |
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A Setter / Braque bronze by Georges Gardet (French, 1863-1939) A bronze of a Setter / Braque at work by Georges Gardet (French, 1863-1939), this casting unusually mounted on chiselled marble terrace. The foundry for this work was the 'Societes Des Bronzes de Paris'. Carved into the marble “Georges Gardetâ€. French, circa 1900
Gardet was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1900, and was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and the Society of French Artists.
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Yr: 1900 |
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“On the Scentâ€, a pencil drawing of a setter by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer R.A. (1802-1873) from 1819. A pencil drawing of a setter on the scent by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer R.A. (1802-1873). The drawing is illustrated, as a woodblock, ‘‘Fig.27 page 37 “The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer†by W. Comos Monkhouse titled “On the Scentâ€. That image is slightly cropped, the drawing here complete with some canine studies near the margin. The author refers to the dogs “as a cross between a pointer and setterâ€. It is though more likely a setter. The reverse bears label for Watling Street Galleries. English 1819.
Provenance:
- Charles William Mansel Lewis
- "The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer RA†by W Cosmo Monkhouse, published in 1879 which was "illustrated by 44 steel engravings and about 200 woodcuts".
- Watling Street Galleries, 116 Watling Street East, Towcester, Northamptonshire
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Artist: Sir Edwin Landseer RA |
Yr: 1819 |
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