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* Gainsborough

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and the Image of Rural Life
1: Landscape with a Wood-cutter Courting a Milkmaid (1755)
In the first of two talks John Barrell , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, looks at this Gainsborough painting with its images of industry and idleness which to him sum up certain common assumptions about society in the England of that time.

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John Barrell
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