© Fitzwilliam Museum
Landscape with herdsman and cows crossing a bridge
Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: 1771 - 1773
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 x 54 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £95,000 (Total: £190,000)
Vendor: Spink-Leger Pictures
Review number: 4820 (2000)
Provenance:
Sir Edward Black; Miss H Ferguson to 1943; Leger Galleries; Rev H Atherton Hart (acquired in 1943) to 1999; sale, sotheby's 31 March 1999, lot 20 (£120,000); bought by Spink Leger Galleries.
Description:
An imagined landscape with a herdsman and cattle in the left bottom corner crossing a bridge towards a white building. Trees and grass are in dappled light. A dead tree stump leans to the left in the foreground.
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