Robinson Crusoe by Sir Edwin Landseer, RA 1802-1873

Robinson Crusoe

Sir Edwin Landseer, RA 1802-1873

1827

Oil on panel

44 cm. x 39 cm.

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Provenance: Landseer's executors' sale, Christies, May 8th 1874, lot 120, sold 60 gns; Joseph Ridgeway Private Collection

Exhibited: Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1874; Landseer Memorial Exhibition, No. 264

Literature: Cabel Scholefield Mann, The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academy, 187; Algernon Graves, Catalogue of the Works of the late Sir Edwin Landseer, RA, London 1876, page 12.

Last modified 12 February 2009