The Market Cart

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The Market Cart
Artist	Thomas Gainsborough
Year	1786
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	184 cm × 153 cm (72 in × 60 in)
Location	National Gallery, London

The Market Cart is a 1786 oil on canvas painting by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough. It is one of his final landscapes,^[1] painted about 18 months before his death^[2] and is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, to which it was presented by the British Institution's governors in 1830.

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The painting depicts a horse-drawn cart, with two girls sat aboard, travelling along a woodland path. It was first exhibited at Gainsborough's own home in Pall Mall in 1786. He would later add a figure of a woodman gathering bundles of wood in 1787.

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