| A Highland Breakfast | |
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| Artist | Edwin Landseer |
| Year | 1834 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 50.8 cm× 66 cm(20.0 in× 26 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
A Highland Breakfast is an 1834 genre painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer. [1] It depicts a scene in a bothy in the Scottish Highlands where a woman breastfeeds her baby while a group of dogs are eating their breakfast from a wooden bowl. It draws a juxtaposition between human and animals behaviour. [2]
It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1834 at Somerset House in London. [3] Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington having been acquired through the gift of the art collector John Sheepshanks in 1857. [4]