The Monarch of the Glen by Edwin Landseer Art Print

A twelve-point stag turns its head in the mist, and Scotland has been looking at him ever since. Edwin Landseer painted The Monarch of the Glen in 1851.

It was commissioned to hang in the refreshment rooms of the House of Lords — and Parliament then refused to pay for it. It went into private hands instead and became one of the most reproduced images of the nineteenth century, put to work selling whisky, marmalade and shortbread until the picture and the product were hard to separate. In 2017 the National Galleries of Scotland bought it for the nation after a public campaign.

The stag is not a portrait of a real animal. Landseer built him out of everything a Highland stag was supposed to be, which is exactly why he became the emblem.

The original hangs in the Scottish National Gallery.

Printed to order on heavyweight archival paper with a narrow white border that keeps the painting's own proportions. Framed in black, wood or white, or unframed for your own frame. Shipped worldwide.

• Archival paper, fade-resistant pigment inks
• Unframed, or framed in black, wood or white
• Made to order and shipped worldwide