Dismal Hound, probably made by Charles Gouyn

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Animal figure. Dismal Hound. Probably made by Charles Gouyn of St James's, London. The unglazed underside has a large oval opening, leaving a flange round the edge. The hound bitch sits on an oval, low mound base with its front paws apart and its head turnned to its left, looking downwards. It has floppy ears and a lugubrious expression. Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and lead-glazed. The glaze is off-white and very speckly. Height, whole, 12.5 cm, length, whole, 10 cm, circa 1749-1759. Rococo.

Image data

Accession Number: C.28-1992
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 302.29kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2010:11:07 12:18:50

Key words

18th Century animal animal figure animals ceramics Charles Gouyn dismal dogs Early Rococo English figure Fitz_AA Georgian glazed hounds lead-glazed porcelain Rococo sad seated sitting slip cast slipware soft-paste porcelain unhappy white

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Dismal Hound, probably made by Charles Gouyn"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1045502878 Accessed: 2024-12-22 15:03:04

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-1045502878
            |title=Dismal Hound, probably made by Charles Gouyn
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 15:03:04|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-214132

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/C_28_1992_1_201011_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Dismal Hound"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Dismal Hound, probably made by Charles Gouyn</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>