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Thomas Gainsborough

A Man on Horseback Driving Three Cows across a Bridge, 1797

Description

Maker

  • Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788, English
  • John & Josiah Boydell, British, publisher

Title

A Man on Horseback Driving Three Cows across a Bridge

Year

1797

Medium

Soft-ground etching on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • soft-ground etching

Supports

  • Medium weight off-white wove paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 32.7 x 39.3 cm (12 7/8 x 15 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:inscribed in pencil in LR:3266In Plate--Inscribed in LL:Designed & Engraved by Tho.s Gainsborough; inscribed in LC:Pub.d as the Act directs Aug.t 1 1797, by J & J Boydell No. 90 Cheapside; & at the Shakespeare (sic) Gallery, Pall-Mall.; numbered, UL: 1

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

47.409

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking

January 19 - April 22, 1990

Recent Acquisitions of the Print Room

September 28 - October 30, 1948

Use

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