Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows
Thomas Gainsborough|John & Josiah Boydell
August 1, 1797 · Aquatint (sugar-lift process), printed in brown ink · Drawings and Prints
Most famous for his dashing portraits of eighteenth-century society figures, Gainsborough was also a highly skilled printmaker who in his late career experimented with the "sugar-lift" aquatint medium—named after a sugar and ink solution used to draw on the plate that later dissolves when immersed in water. The subject of grazing cows in a sun-struck sylvan setting recalls seventeenth-century Dutch pastorals.
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough|John & Josiah Boydell
- Date
- August 1, 1797
- Medium
- Aquatint (sugar-lift process), printed in brown ink
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
