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Victorian diamond and ruby coursing Greyhound brooch A Greyhound running at full stretch, silver set with old cut diamonds of various sizes, gold backed and natural cabochon cut ruby eye. The Greyhound’s legs, tail, upper and lower body with chased detail. Victorian, English, circa 1880. In later box when retailed during King George V reign by Garrard & Co in . The lid of the box reads “Garrard & Co Ltd Goldsmith, Jewellers & c TO THE KING By Special Appointment TO THE CROWN 24, ALBEMARLE ST., W.” The box imbossed in gold “Garrard”. SOLD
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Oil on canvas of the celebrated Greyhound"Honeywood" by James Armstrong (English, 19th Century)
An oil on canvas of the celebrated Greyhound "Honeywood" standing in a landscape by James Armstrong (English, 19th Century). Titled "Honeywood 1880” and signed bottom left “James Armstrong Gretna Green Carlisle”. Honeywell owned by Mr R B Carruthers won the Waterloo Cup in 1880. English, circa 1885.
The Waterloo Cup
The Waterloo Cup was the biggest annual hare coursing event in the United Kingdom and was often referred to by its supporters as the blue riband event of the coursing year. Run as a knock-out tournament between sixty four coursing greyhounds from Great Britain and Ireland, the three day event was run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, from 1836 to 2005 and used to attract tens of thousands of spectators to watch and gamble on the coursing matches.
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Greyhound |
Artist: James Armstrong |
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A porcelain Greyhound and hare by Jacob Petit (French, 1796-1865) A porcelain standing Greyhound with a hare between its legs by Jacob Petit (French, 1796-1865). Signed on the base “JPâ€.
Jacob Petit (French, 1796-1865) was one of the most famous French porcelain manufacturers of the 19th century. He began studying painting at Gros, then left Paris for England which gave him the taste for decorative objects. On his return to France in 1830, he published a book of interior decoration. His greatest interest was though in porcelain. By 1838 he bought Weill Baruch, in Fontainebleau. In 1850, he merged his two factories in Avon, but some years later, in 1862, he retires from Paradise Street Poissonière, transferring its business to one of his workers, Jacquemain.
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Artist: Jacob Petit |
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Greyhound photographs by Eadweard Muybridge“ Photograph by Edweard James Muybridge (1830-1904), British-American photographer and pioneer of animal sequence photography
Album on the decomposition of movement, Animal Locomotion: dog
This artwork is a photography from the modern period .
The place of conservation of " Album on the decomposition of movement, Animal Locomotion: dog " is Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Greyhound |
Artist: Edweard James Muybridge |
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Pencil drawing of the Royal dogs "Hector, Nero, and Dash with the parrot, Lory" attributable to Thomas Landseer ARA (1795-1880) after Sir Edwin Landseer RA (English, 1802-1873) An absolutely superb pencil drawing of the Royal dogs "Hector, Nero, and Dash with the parrot, Lory" attributable to Thomas Landseer ARA (1795-1880) after Sir Edwin Landseer RA (English, 1802-1873). This famous portrait of the Royal pets depicts the greyhound Nero, Hector, the Scottish deerhound, Dash the spaniel and Lory, the parrot seen cracking nuts, was painted by Landseer in 1838 for Queen Victoria. The Queen considered Landseer work as “the most beautiful thing imaginable”. It was later dubbed by the Queen as being 'too beautiful' (Journal, 4 May 1838). English, circa 1840.
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Greyhound |
Artist: Thomas Landseer |
Yr: 1840 |
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A "Black Forest" ivory carved Italian Greyhound / Whippet cuffstuds SOLD A pair of "Black Forest" ivory carved standing Italian Greyhound / Whippet cuffstuds cufflinks. Each cuffstud as one piece of ivory.
Such carvings were from German workshop of the Graf von Erbach-Erbach in Odenwald, and the Kehrer family at Erbach, Ernst (working 1830-40) and his son Edouard (1812-63). They were made from around 1830 to 1860.
In the jewellery collection of the British Museum, London, there is a brooch with the same dog seated with stag and deer.
German, circa 1850.
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Greyhound |
Yr: 1850 |
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19th century oil on canvas of a recumbent Greyhound Oil on canvas of a recumbent Greyhound in parkland setting. Indistinct monogram. The Greyhound is reminiscent of Turlu the Greyhound of Louis XV from the 1725 painting of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686-1755) "Misse and Turlu" which can today be seen at the Chateau de Fontainebleau
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Greyhound |
Yr: 1850 |
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An Erbach "Black Forest" ivory carved Italian Greyhound / Whippet brooch tie / stick pin A "Black Forest" ivory carved standing Greyhound stick pin. Such carvings were from German workshop of the Graf von Erbach-Erbach in Odenwald, and the Kehrer family at Erbach, Ernst (working 1830-40) and his son Edouard (1812-63). They were made from around 1830 to 1860. Examples can be seen in the jewellery collection of the British Museum, London, for example there is a brooch with the same dog seated with stag and deer. German, circa 1850.
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Greyhound |
Yr: 1850 |
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Oil on canvas of a pair of Italian Greyhounds by François Gabriel Guillaume Lepaulle (French, 1804-1886)
Oil on canvas of a pair standing Italian Greyhounds by François Gabriel Guillaume Lepaulle (French, 1804-1886). Signed bottom right in red paint “G Lepaulleâ€. French, circa 1850
Lépaulle schooled at the prestigious l’École des Beaux-Arts, exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1824 onwards, and the Universal Exhibition of 1855, then today his work can be seen in museums in Paris, Versailles, Victoria Museum in London and The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
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Greyhound |
Artist: François Gabriel Guillaume Lepaulle |
Yr: 1850 |
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