- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) after George Morland (1763-1804)
- Title
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- Dogs Hesitating about the Pluck
- Date
- 1796 - 1797
- Medium and Support
- Graphite and watercolour on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.3 × 31.8 cm, 9 ⅝ × 12 ½ in
- Subject Terms
- Animal Study
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG0874
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 412 as 'c. 1800'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001 and 2018
Provenance
John Henderson (1764–1843); then by descent to John Henderson II (1797–1878) (lent to Manchester, 1857; London, 1875); bequeathed to the Museum, 1878
Exhibition History
Manchester, 1857, no.75 as 'Dogs, after Morland'; London, 1875, no.127
Bibliography
Miller, 1854, p.xxi; Thornbury, 1862, vol.1, p.99; Monkhouse, 1890, p.44; Binyon, 1898–1907, no.84
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