Lot 114
114
EDMUND HENRY OSTHAUS (AMERICAN, 1858-1928)
EDMUND HENRY OSTHAUS (AMERICAN, 1858-1928)

Count Gladstone

Details
EDMUND HENRY OSTHAUS (AMERICAN, 1858-1928)
Count Gladstone
signed 'Edm. H. Osthaus' (lower right)
pencil, watercolor and gouache on card
22 x 32 in. (55.9 x 81.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Ravenwood Gallery, Elyria, Ohio, from whom purchased by the present owner.
Literature
The Pointing Dog Journal, vol. V, no. 4, 1997, p. 25 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Count Gladstone was owned by Jessie Sherwood of Chicago and handled by E.M. Shelley, who ran the dog in his first field trial in 1903 (the Eastern Derby at Thomasville, Georgia), in which he finished third. he won eighteen times in open trials, and Shelley called him 'one of the greatest dogs on game the world has ever known.'

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