‘The Milk Maid’ Greetings Card

by Gainsborough's House

£3.00

This greetings card features the painting ‘The Milkmaid’ by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) 1755.

‘A rural couple pause from their labours, their youth contrasting with the old, gnarled, pollarded oak tree under which they rest. The seated milkmaid turns away from the woodcutter, who holds an armful of sticks and points with his free hand at the full pail of milk she has collected. Beyond the common land they inhabit is a ploughman with his horses, working in an enclosed field. On a hill, in the middle of the composition, another couple walk off, past a pair of donkeys, towards a distant town.

The picture, bought by the 4th Duke of Bedford (along with no. 8) was hung as the overmantel in the Eating Room on the Ground Floor at Woburn. The four main rooms along the West Front Ground Floor at Woburn all had landscapes fitted into the architectural framework of the continued chimney-pieces.’ (Extract from ‘Gainsborough and the Legacy of Landscape’ Masterpieces from Woburn Abbey Exhibition Catalogue (Page. 62)).

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FSC [ from sustainable forests], chlorine free, acid free and recyclable

16 x 16cm

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Gainsborough's House

Gainsborough's House is in the heart of Suffolk, in Sudbury, and the birthplace and childhood home of Thomas Gainsborough – one of the great figures of British and World Art history, renowned not only in his advancement of portraiture to a higher level but also in being one of the founders of the British School of landscape painting.
A bricked Georgian Grade-I listed house with an intimate walled garden featuring a 400 year old Mulberry Tree, in 2019, the Gainsborough’s House Society received an investment of £10m to upgrade and ‘revive the artist’s birthplace’. On 21 November 2022, the museum re-opened to the public after a transformational refurbishment. The museum is the international centre for Thomas Gainsborough and is now the largest gallery in Suffolk.

Visitors can view the family house, the new gallery spaces, examples of Gainsborough’s work, alongside specialist exhibitions and the famed garden and Mulberry Tree dating to the early 1600s. The space also has a cafe and visitor’s shop.

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