Thomas Gainsborough

A Man on Horseback Driving Three Cows across a Bridge,

Maker

Title

A Man on Horseback Driving Three Cows across a Bridge

Medium

soft-ground etching

Materials/Techniques

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

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D/MUSEUM/OF ART surrounded by PROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLAND all inscribed in a circle

Type

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

47.409

A Man on Horseback Driving Three Cows across a Bridge

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

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D/MUSEUM/OF ART surrounded by PROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLAND all inscribed in a circle

Exhibition History

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