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Description: PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

BRITISH, 1769-1859
A DEVONSHIRE COW

measurements
17 1/2 by 24 in.

alternate measurements
44.5 by 61 cm

signed with monogram (lower left)

oil on panel

PROVENANCE

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 26, 1983, lot 244, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

LITERATURE

C. Reginald Grundy, James Ward, R.A., 1909, p. 39, no. 101

NOTE

The present work was painted for Boydell & Co. under the auspices of the board of Agriculture, to make two hundred paintings of scale accuracy, recording the different breeds of livestock in England. This composition was also engraved by T. Tagg in 1807.