The Market Cart is a 1786 oil on canvas painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough. It is one of his final landscapes,[1] painted about 18 months before his death[2] and is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, to which it was presented by the British Institution's governors in 1830.
| The Market Cart | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | 1786 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 184 cm × 153 cm (72 in × 60 in) |
| Location | National Gallery, London |
Description edit
The painting depicts a horse-drawn cart, with two girls sat aboard, travelling along a woodland path. It was first exhibited at Gainsborough's own home in Pall Mall in 1786. He would later add a figure of a woodman gathering bundles of wood in 1787. William Dutt, in a book published in 1901, claimed that this painting depicted Gainsborough Lane, which later gave its name to part of the South East Area, Ipswich.[3]
References edit
- ^ Jones, Jonathan. "Rural mystery: Thomas Gainsborough's The Market Cart". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ "Catalogue entry". National Gallery.
- ^ Dutt, William Alfred (1901). Highways and byways in East Anglia. London: Macmillan. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
 | This article about an eighteenth-century painting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |