Thomas Gainsborough RA, Three Cows on a Hillside, c. 1795.
Sugar-lift aquatint with drypoint. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
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Three Cows on a Hillside, c. 1795
Thomas Gainsborough RA (1727 - 1788)
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