The Market Cart
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Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
Year | 1786 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 184 cm × 153 cm (72 in × 60 in) |
Location | National Gallery, London |
The Market Cart is a 1786 oil on canvas painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough. It is one of his final landscapes,[1] painted about 18 months before his death[2] and is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, to which it was presented by the British Institution's governors in 1830.
Description
The painting depicts a horse-drawn cart, with two girls sat aboard, travelling along a woodland path. It was first exhibited at Gainsborough's own home in Pall Mall in 1786. He would later add a figure of a woodman gathering bundles of wood in 1787. William Dutt, in a book published in 1901, claimed that this painting depicted Gainsborough Lane, which later gave its name to part of the South East Area, Ipswich.[3]
References
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- Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk (1748)
- Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated (1748)
- Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750)
- The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1757)
- Gypsy works (including The Gipsies et al.)
- The Harvest Wagon (c. 1767)
- The Blue Boy (c. 1770)
- Maria, Lady Eardley (c. 1770)
- Portrait of David Garrick (1770)
- Woman in Blue (c. 1770–1780)
- Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham (1777)
- Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (1777–78)
- Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas (c. 1780)
- Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich (1783)
- Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785)
- The Market Cart (1786)
- Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1785–1787)
- Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787)
- Cottage Door works (including The Woodcutter's Return et al.)
- Humphrey Gainsborough (brother)
- Kitty (1945 film)
- Gainsborough (crater)
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