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Scottish Terrier "The Mouse Hole" by Marguerite Kirmse (1885-1954)
"The Mouse Hole" etching by Marguerite Kirmse (1885-1954), published April 1926 and illustreated in "Marguerite Kirmse Dogs"
Also published in 1930 by the Derrydale Press, New York in 'Marguerite Kirmse's Dogs' Introduction by R T Townsend', editor of Countrylife.
This was one of the artist beloved Scottish Terriers who would sit for hours by a tiny crack in the wall hoping that a mouse would appear. Kirmse recalls that she does not remember one actually appearing.
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Scottish Terrier |
Artist: Marguerite Kirmse |
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"Fire worshippers" by Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942)
Known as "Fire worshippers", watercolour of a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel and an Irish Wolfhound by Herbert Thomas Dicksee R.E (1862-1942). The finished study for his 1899 engraving of the same name "Fire Worshippers" exhibited at the Royal Academy. It was first published, 1899, by printsellers C E Clifford & Co., of 200 Piccadilly, later of 21 Haymarket. Frost and Reed further published the work in 1906.
There is an example of the etching in the National Trust property, Tyntesfield, North Somerset.
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King Charles Cavalier Spaniel |
Artist: Thomas Herbert Dicksee, RE |
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