A forest road, by Gainsborough

An image of A forest road. Gainsborough, Thomas (British, 1727-1788). Oil on canvas, height 62.8 cm, width 75.5 cm, circa 1750. A landscape drawing with much similarity of composition, in 1969 with Sabin Galleries, London, has been dated to the early 1750's.

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A forest road. Gainsborough, Thomas (British, 1727-1788). Oil on canvas, height 62.8 cm, width 75.5 cm, circa 1750. A landscape drawing with much similarity of composition, in 1969 with Sabin Galleries, London, has been dated to the early 1750's.

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Accession Number: 1654
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 844 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 110.39kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1
Captured: 2015:11:10 15:16:27

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18th Century British School English exterior Fitz_PDP forest forested Gainsborough landscape oil on canvas painting paths roads rustic Thomas Gainsborough trees wooded woodland woods

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