Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle over a Bridge, with Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle

Thomas Gainsborough1779-1780

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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