Spotting the 'Monarch of the Terrace'

"Monarch of the Glen," which hangs in the Scottish National Gallery.

Some of you may be familiar with the painting "Monarch of the Glen," an oil-on-canvas painting of an impressively large red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer.

It was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London. As one of the most popular paintings throughout the 19th Century, it sold widely in reproductions in steel engraving, and finally was bought by companies to use in advertising.

Well, except for their cool accents, us red-blooded Yanks can always do better than the Brits, and neighbor Ned Alaskey has supplied us with proof of it. Well, sort of. Our resident "monarch" stag is camera shy, so any recorded glimpse of him may be a bit fuzzy, but here it is anyway.

 

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