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Oct 1, 2007

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage

published in 1797

Thomas Gainsborough

(British, 1727–1788)

England, 18th century

Softground etching and aquatint

Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection 1963.566

Catalogue raisonné: Hayes 5

Location

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Description

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.

See also
Collection: 
PR - Etching
Department: 
Prints
Type of artwork: 
Print
Medium: 
Softground etching and aquatint
Credit line: 
Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection

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