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A Wooded Landscape with Horsemen
Thomas Gainsborough, 1775
Black chalk with watercolour and lead white on prepared paper dipped in skimmed milk and varnished. Use of lead white, fixed with skimmed milk and then varnished was first employed by Gainsborough in the early 1770s.
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Title of artwork, date
A Wooded Landscape with Horsemen, 1775
Date supported
1991
Medium and material
Chalk, watercolour, lead white on paper
Dimensions
21 x 30 cm
Grant
15000
Total cost
87500
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