William Home Lizars
Engravings of the Horse Drawn from Nature. Plate 2: Exulting in his strength, he paws the vale...'
About this artwork
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artist:William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859) Scottish
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title:Engravings of the Horse Drawn from Nature. Plate 2: Exulting in his strength, he paws the vale...'
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date created:1824
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after:James Howe (1780 - 1836) Scottish
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materials:Engraving on paper
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measurements:Platemark: 26.80 x 37.90 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1949
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accession number:P 8806.3
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William Home Lizars
William Home Lizars
In 1802 Lizars was apprenticed to his father who ran an Edinburgh engraving business, before entering the Trustees’ Academy in 1804 as a student of John Graham. In 1808, as he graduated from the Trustees’ Academy, Lizars began exhibiting as a portraitist and genre painter with the Associated...
