Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep
Thomas Gainsborough
ca. 1770 · Black chalk, pen and black ink, blue and brown washes, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor) · Drawings and Prints
Gainsborough applied his monogram, seen here at lower rigtht, to several drawings made during his Bath period (1759–74) before giving them as gifts. A layer of varnish makes the image resemble an oil sketch.
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Date
- ca. 1770
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and black ink, blue and brown washes, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
