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Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle over a Bridge, with Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle
Thomas Gainsborough1779-1780
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle over a Bridge, with Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle
- Creator: Thomas Gainsborough
- Date Created: 1779-1780
- Subject Keywords: animals, architecture, bridges (built works), castles, cattle, genre, landscapes (representations), love, lovers, ruins
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in separate plate, lower left: “Designed & Engraved by Thos. Gainsborough”
- Print State: Second of two states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1960
- Materials & Techniques: Etching and soft-ground etching printed in brown ink on wove paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Published August 1, 1799, by J & J Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside (with a separate plate added for inscription below image)
- Dimensions: 1788
- Bibliography: Hayes 11 ii/ii; Woodall 1
- Associated People: Created by Thomas Gainsborough (British (English), 1727-1788)
- Accession Number: 1960.13.4
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