A woman on a donkey rides next to a walking huntsman with a gun, at the head of a flock of goats with cattle, while a herder follows up behind. Etching by F. Vivares after Claude Lorraine.

[London] : Publish'd by Ar. Pond, July 6th 1743.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 31.3 x 39.7 cm

In the collection of the Rt. Hon.ble the Lord James Cavendish 2 feet 9 inch wide. 2 feet high. Claudio Gillee Lorenese pinx. 1641. Vivares sculp.

D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan: Rizzoli, 1975, pp. 124-125, no. 276

John Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 190-191 (Lord James Cavendish)

Wellcome Collection 3055829i

On the evidence of this etching, Cecchi (loc. cit.) includes the painting among doubtful attributions to Claude

After a painting said here to belong to Lord James Cavendish. Colonel Lord James Cavendish (1701-1741) was MP for Malton (though often overseas on military service), while Lord James Cavendish FRS (ca. 1707-1751) was MP for Derby. As the present print is dated 6 July 1743, an attribution to the Lord James Cavendish who died in 1741 should be implausible, but it is not impossible, as the engraver could have been working from a drawing made in 1741 or earlier. In favour of the attribution to him is also the fact that he went to Italy on the Grand Tour in 1723 (Ingamells, loc. cit.). The Cavendish painting is lost and only known from the present etching (Cecchi, loc. cit.)