Painting and Sculpture

Hawking in the Olden Time

Hawking in the Olden Time, or simply Hawking, is an 1832 genre painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer. It depicts a historic scene of hawking with the hawk and a heron dominating the composition, and the human figures moved into the background. The painting was the first of Landseer's major works to feature hawking, a theme he would return to. It was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1832 at Somerset House in London, where it was praised by The Athenaeum as a "wonderful piece of painting, and boldly conceived". Today the painting is in the collection of Kenwood House in Highgate, having been acquired as part of the Iveagh Bequest in 1929.

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• ▸A Balloon in Mid-Air
• ▸Assamese alphabet
• ▸Charles Heaney

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