A battle-scarred terrier with cropped ears is sitting on the doorstep of a butcher's shop. Steel engraving by H. Beckwith after E. H. Landseer.

"Low life" is the counterpart to "High Life" (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 40071i) with the dog representing the absent owner's tough plebeian values

The accessories of a butcher's shop are scattered about: the butcher's block with a knife and a bottle on it, a top hat and worn boots, beer tankard and clay pipe and his whip and keys hanging on a hook

London : [publisher not identified]

1 print : engraving ; image 24 x 18.9 cm

Low life. From the picture in the Vernon Gallery. E. Landseer, painter. H. Beckwith, engraver

R. Ormond, Sir Edwin Landseer, Tate Gallery London 1982, p. 99-100

Wellcome Collection 40073i

Engraving after the oil painting "Low life", 1829, by E. H. Landseer in the Tate Gallery