Books+ Search Results
Landscape with cattle
Title
[Landscape with cattle] [graphic] / Gaspar Poussin pinx. ; P.C. Cannot sculp.
Publication
[London] : Publish'd by Ar. Pond, Feby. 11th, 1744.
Physical Description
1 print : etching with engraving ; sheet 30.6 x 41 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title devised by curator.
Measurements of the original painting etched in lower margin: 3 feet 2 inch wide, 2 feet 4 inch high.
Original painting was later kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Summary
"Landscape with cattle drinking from a river at centre, in the right foreground two figures seen half-length, trees on either side; mountains in the right background."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Text below image: In the collection of the Honble. Horace Walpole Esqr.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 13, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Landscape prints.
Genre prints.
Reproductions.
Etchings - England - London - 1744.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
