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Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage

published in 1797

Thomas Gainsborough

(British, 1727–1788)
Culture
England, 18th century
Medium
softground etching and aquatint
Credit Line
Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection 1963.566
Catalogue raisonné
Hayes 5
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Gainsborough was one of the first English artists to attempt original work using the newly invented techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. His almost impressionistic handling of these new media was perfectly in keeping with his chalk, pencil, and washed sketches of the landscape. The freshness and vitality of Gainsborough’s original prints, all published posthumously, place them among the greatest of all original English landscape prints.
A horizontally oriented print in black ink with grainy, textured lines depicts two cows at a pool's edge. Thick, shaded trees rise in the center, their branches creating a dense canopy over two figures on a log. On the right, a lone figure and dog stand near a cottage under a pale, circular moon. Splotchy, dark shading defines the foliage and shadows, while horizontal streaks suggest reflections in the water and sky.

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage

published in 1797

Thomas Gainsborough

(British, 1727–1788)
England, 18th century

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