'Frisk' a Skye Terrier
R. S. Moseley (fl.1863-1893)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1875 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
915 x 1065 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Treasurer's House, North Yorkshire
NT 593161
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Skye Terrier by R.S. Moseley (fl.1863-1893), signed R.S. Moseley, 1875. Painting of a fawn and black Skye terrier with its tongue hanging out, sitting at the foot of a torn baize door.
Full description
Although described as a Skye Terrier in the 1930 inventory (this description apparently typed in after the main description was originally left blank), the work may in fact show a Dandie Dinmont Terrier (a variety of terrier named after a character in Sir Walter Scott's 1815 novel, Guy Mannering).
Provenance
Hung in the 'white Landing' (now office Flat landing) in 1930; gift of Francis 'Frank' William Green FSA (1861-1954), 1930
Credit line
Treasurer’s House, York, The Frank Green Gift (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
R.S. Moseley (signed)
Makers and roles
R. S. Moseley (fl.1863-1893), artist