Asses Drinking, from "Illustrated London News"

Richard Ansdell|Thomas Beech|Henry Linton

March 13, 1858 · Wood engraving · Drawings and Prints

Ansdell's Spanish subject won a prize at the Glasgow Art Union in 1857 and was reproduced as a full-page wood engraving in the "Illustrated London News." Accompanying text praised the artist as: "an animal painter [who] has long commanded a high renown...[and] lately prosecuted his art in newer and larger fields…In Spain, he has studied character, climate, and colour, in scenes equally novel and suggestive, presenting a mine of wealth to the eye of the artist; and all these essentials to pictorial effect he has admirably combined in his picture entitled "Asses Drinking." Linton was one of the finest wood engravers who worked for the "Illustrated London News."

Artist

Richard Ansdell|Thomas Beech|Henry Linton

Date

March 13, 1858

Medium

Wood engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019