Shepherding a Flock to Pasture

Shepherding a Flock to Pasture

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Landscape. On a wagon track in the foreground, a flock of sheep are driven to pasture by three shepherds, one mounted on a grey horse, one holding a leashed dog and one waving a staff. Scrub trees frame the composition, one on the left and two on the right. In the left middle ground, six cattle graze on a sloping meadow beneath a rocky precipice, at the top of which is the ruin of Beeston Castle, Cheshire. In the right middle ground, smoke rises from the chimney stack of a gated building. In the near distance are two groups of buildings; a farmhouse and church ruin to the left, and a temple-fronted ruin to the right. In the far distance are rolling hills.

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Painting

1750s

Oil on canvas

114 x 135 cm