Landscape: driving cattle
Oil Painting
ca. 1848-1850 (painted)
ca. 1848-1850 (painted)
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John Linnell always based his pictures on direct study from nature. However, from the 1840s he also began to invest his landscape paintings with religious symbolism. The composition here is dominated by intensely dark storm clouds which threaten the farmer as he hurries to drive home his herd, creating a foreboding, even apocalyptic atmosphere.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Landscape: driving cattle (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil painting by John Linnell, depicting driven cattle |
| Physical description | Landscape. Driving Cattle. Oil on panel. English. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, 1868 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | John Linnell always based his pictures on direct study from nature. However, from the 1840s he also began to invest his landscape paintings with religious symbolism. The composition here is dominated by intensely dark storm clouds which threaten the farmer as he hurries to drive home his herd, creating a foreboding, even apocalyptic atmosphere. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 178 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1407-1869 |
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| Record created | June 11, 2003 |
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