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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.
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