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Widespread throughout the Scottish Highlands and instantly recognised by its distinctive antlers, the red deer stag takes centre stage in this print by Gertrude Hermes. Taking advantage of the cutting technique of linocut, she depicts the stag’s elongated antlers, contrasting them against a lighter background. Hermes’s proud stag is part of a noble tradition of paintings of the ‘Monarch of the Glen’, most famously the 1851 oil painting by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802–1873). A comic novel with the same title written by Scottish writer, Compton Mackenzie, was later published in 1941.

Renowned for her innovative wood engravings, prints and book illustrations, Hermes worked primarily in linoleum and wood to achieve varied and often sophisticated effects that demonstrated her technical dexterity in printmaking.