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Tullie House Museum : 1914.6.7
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Painting, oil painting, Reynard Triumphant, by Matthias Read, Whitehaven, Cumberland, about 1730.
Autumnal landscape with ruined castle standing in the middle distance to right. Beside the gnarled roots of a tree in centre of composition a fox crouches with a partially featherless hen gripped between his forepaws. Three wildcats have surrounded him and he turns to snarl at two of them defensively. After Frans Snyder.
The work originally hung at the Grapes Inn, Carlisle.
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Reynard Triumphant School of Frans Synders June 1898
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