Stable Yard with Horses

Thomas Rowlandson British

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Best known as a satirist, Rowlandson here applies line and wash in a naturalistic fashion to represent a busy stable yard where horses feed on hay outside a large barn near pigs. The artist shows the animals interacting in ways that suggest sociable conversation.

Stable Yard with Horses, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

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Stable Yard with Horses, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash
Stable Yard with Horses, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

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