The Market Waggon - Steel Engraving after Gainsborough - G. Virtue 1849
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Original steel engraving with "The Market Waggon", a landscape by Thomas Gainsborough: the loaded wagon climbing the lane while the horses drink at the ford, under a broken sky and beside a pollarded oak. Lettered below "Gainsborough" at the left and "W. R. Smith" at the right, with the imprint "London, George Virtue".
Original steel engraving with "The Market Waggon", a landscape by Thomas Gainsborough: the loaded wagon climbing the lane while the horses drink at the ford, under a broken sky and beside a pollarded oak. Lettered below "Gainsborough" at the left and "W. R. Smith" at the right, with the imprint "London, George Virtue".
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), besides being the portraitist of the English aristocracy, was one of the great landscape painters of his century; his scenes of lanes, wagons and fords were much engraved throughout the 19th century.
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
Engraver: W. R. Smith
Date: 1849
Source: George Virtue, London
Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 in (27.5 x 20.5 cm)
Condition: Good. Sheet with wide margins and clean paper; a very faint foxing spot in the left margin.
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Original steel engraving with "The Market Waggon", a landscape by Thomas Gainsborough: the loaded wagon climbing the lane while the horses drink at the ford, under a broken sky and beside a pollarded oak. Lettered below "Gainsborough" at the left and "W. R. Smith" at the right, with the imprint "London, George Virtue".