# A Visit to the Falconer's [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on board, 32 x 41 cm ## Commentary The sport of hawking, which had largely fallen into remission in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, enjoyed a marked revival in the early nineteenth century among aristocratic sportsmen. In this rapidly executed and freely painted sketch Landseer conjures a scene in which two young ladies of the castle \(which is itself visible through the doorway\) pay a visit to the Falconer's house. They watch intently as a young boy, possibly their brother, smartly dressed in a slashed doublet and hose, feeds a hawk from the hand, whilst the Falconer himself peers over his shoulder, possibly offering instruction. ## Related artworks - [A Deerhound with Two Dead Roe Deer]() - [A Greyhound with a Hare]() - [A Highland Landscape]() - [Head Study of a Girl]() - [Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals \(detail\)]() - [Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals]() - [Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costumé of 12 May 1842]() - [Study of Highland Blackface Sheep]() - [The Arab Tent]() - [Venus, a Landseer Newfoundland with a Rabbit]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()