A Farmer with a Horse and Cart
Benjamin Marshall (Leicestershire 1767 – London 1835)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1809 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
690 x 896 mm (27 1/8 x 35 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446687
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Farmer with his Horse and Cart by Benjamin Marshall (Leicestershire 1767 - London 1835), signed and dated, as inscription on the waggon, Farmer Marshall, 09. A carter holds up the shafts of a farm waggon, to which he is about to harness a shire horse; in the background, left, two Suffolk Punches are drawing a plough.
Provenance
At Upton by 1927;
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Farmer Marshall, 09 (signed and dated as inscription on the waggon)
Makers and roles
Benjamin Marshall (Leicestershire 1767 – London 1835), artist