Study of a Dog

1820–73

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk heightened with white and red chalk
Dimensions: sheet: 6 15/16 x 9 3/4 in. (17.7 x 24.7 cm)
Collection no.: 1979.135.9
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Edwin Landseer. Study of a Dog. Edwin Landseer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Mary Cushing Fosburgh, 1978. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Study of a Dog — Edwin Landseer. 1820–73.

Medium: Black chalk heightened with white and red chalk. Dimensions: sheet: 6 15/16 x 9 3/4 in. (17.7 x 24.7 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Mary Cushing Fosburgh, 1978.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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