Our Herds, No. 4, Dairy Cow

by Thomas Sidney Cooper, J. West Giles, lithographer

$1,100 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A charming plate after a work by one of the most prominent nineteenth-century animal painters. Strongly influenced by the seventeenth-century Dutch landscape and animal painters like Aelbert Cuyp, Thomas Sidney Cooper was one of the most prolific and eminent animal painters of his time. As a young boy, he showed a remarkable aptitude for drawing, and he trained with the scene-painter Doyle while completing an early apprenticeship with a coachbuilder. After brief stints as a

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