Howe (James, 1780-1836). Boy washing horses in a stable, man leading a horse with panniers, man feeding hay to two horses, man training a horse, and man on horseback with dog, five pen and brown ink drawings on wove paper, each signed 'How' or 'Howe', sheet size 27 x 40.5 cm (10.6 x 16 ins) (Qty: 5) James Howe (or How), also known as Howe of Skirling, was born in Skirling on the Scottish borders and apprenticed to a house painter, although his main interest was horses and cattle. A volume of engravings after his drawings was published in Edinburgh by W.H. Lizars in 1824, entitled Fourteen Engravings from Drawings of the Horse, itself a relative rarity (not present in Podeschi, Books on the Horse, Paul Mellon Collection, 1981), and a further series of prints entitled National Work depicting the breeds of horses in cattle in Scotland, was issued in three parts between 1829 and 1831 by Ballantyne & Company of Edinburgh. Howe became a firm friend of Sir Walter Scott painting his portrait, as well as a farmyard scene incorporating Scott's legendary dog Camp at Ashestiel. A monograph on his life and work written by A.D. Cameron, published in 1986, is entitled The Man Who Loved to Draw Horses. The present drawings conform closely in scale to the prints published in Howe's Fourteen Engravings from Drawings of the Horse.
Howe (James, 1780-1836). Boy washing horses in a stable, man leading a horse with panniers, man feeding hay to two horses, man training a horse, and man on horseback with dog, five pen and brown ink drawings on wove paper, each signed 'How' or 'Howe', sheet size 27 x 40.5 cm (10.6 x 16 ins) (Qty: 5) James Howe (or How), also known as Howe of Skirling, was born in Skirling on the Scottish borders and apprenticed to a house painter, although his main interest was horses and cattle. A volume of engravings after his drawings was published in Edinburgh by W.H. Lizars in 1824, entitled Fourteen Engravings from Drawings of the Horse, itself a relative rarity (not present in Podeschi, Books on the Horse, Paul Mellon Collection, 1981), and a further series of prints entitled National Work depicting the breeds of horses in cattle in Scotland, was issued in three parts between 1829 and 1831 by Ballantyne & Company of Edinburgh. Howe became a firm friend of Sir Walter Scott painting his portrait, as well as a farmyard scene incorporating Scott's legendary dog Camp at Ashestiel. A monograph on his life and work written by A.D. Cameron, published in 1986, is entitled The Man Who Loved to Draw Horses. The present drawings conform closely in scale to the prints published in Howe's Fourteen Engravings from Drawings of the Horse.
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