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Maker(s):Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de
Culture:Alsatian, active in England (1740-1812)
Title:Landscape with Overturned Wagon in a Storm
Date Made:1809
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Measurements:stretcher: 28 1/4 x 41 1/2"; frame: 41 x 54 1/8 x 4 1/4"
Accession Number:  AC 1974.30
Credit Line:Purchased in honor of Susan Dwight Bliss
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Loutherbourg, a painter, illustrator, and occultist, was the most innovative and ambitious stage designer of his day, who revolutionized the illusionism of the British stage through his inventive work for David Garrick and Richard Brinsley Sheridan at Drury Lane. He brought the same taste for sublime effects to this storm scene, in which the horses, startled by a clap of thunder and lightning strike, have bolted from their harnesses, dragging their driver and threatening to overturn the carriage.
EEB, 2008

Tags:
landscapes; storms; nature; damage; horses

Subjects:
Canvas

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