Shape of a transform matrix that maps $\mathbb{R}^{a \times b}$ to $\mathbb{R}^{c \times d}$

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I'm looking for the dimension of some tensor $T$ that transforms $a \times b$ matrices to $c \times d$ matrices. I initially thought it would have to be of a greater dimension, perhaps some shape like $a\times b\times c \times d$ since transforming m vector to a n vector would require a $n \times m$ matrix.

However, I can't seem to think how it would look like aside from doing the normal matrix multiplication but by dotting matrices instead of vectors.

What would be the dimensions of this $a \times b$ to $c \times d$ transform look like?