A Meadow with Cattle and Deer, 1684

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 15.7 x 11.9 cm (6 3/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1984.26.1

Artists / Makers

Francis Barlow (artist) English, 1622 - 1704

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: 1684 / F.Barlow; in later hand, upper left in graphite: 33

Provenance

John Evelyn (1620-1706); by descent ultimately to J.H.C. Evelyn and Major Peter Evelyn; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., London, 14 June 1977, no. 160); (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 15 March 1984, no. 77); purchased by NGA (via Morton Morris & Company Ltd, London), 1984.

Associated Names

Evelyn, John
Morton Morris & Company Ltd.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1960: The Age of Charles II, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1960-1961, no. 548.

1986: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

1987: English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.