After George Morland

Probably Arthur Braun, Pittsburgh;
Thence by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Paul B. Ernst, Pittsburgh;
By whom given to Carnegie Museum of Art, 1978 (Inv. no. 78.10.19).

Oil on canvas with an old lining. Picture surface is dirty with a discolored varnish. Fine stable web of craquelure. Paper at the edges of the picture visible at each edge. Under UV light, the varnish is streaky and hard to read through. There is evidence of impairing to address previously mentioned craquelure. There is also an area of impairing in the rocks at the center right edge.
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The present work is after the original by George Morland, signed and dated 1792, in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.