Landscape with a Figure Carrying a Bundle of Branches, a Copice Behind, Two Cows in a Field at Left

Q: When was "Landscape with a Figure Carrying a Bundle of Branches, a Copice Behind, Two Cows in a Field at Left" created?

This artwork was created May 1, 1789.

Q: Is "Landscape with a Figure Carrying a Bundle of Branches, a Copice Behind, Two Cows in a Field at Left" in the public domain?

Yes, Landscape with a Figure Carrying a Bundle of Branches, a Copice Behind, Two Cows in a Field at Left is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Thomas Gainsborough|John Thane|Carl Friedrich Abel|Thomas Rowlandson

May 1, 1789

Landscape with a Figure Carrying a Bundle of Branches, a Copice Behind, Two Cows in a Field at Left by Thomas Gainsborough|John Thane|Carl Friedrich Abel|Thomas Rowlandson

Medium

Etching, soft-ground etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink

Dimensions

Plate: 11 3/4 × 14 7/8 in. (29.9 × 37.8 cm) Sheet: 12 9/16 × 17 5/16 in. (31.9 × 44 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Accession Number

59.533.339

About the Artist

Thomas Gainsborough|John Thane|Carl Friedrich Abel|Thomas Rowlandson · 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough was born on 14 May 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest of nine children to wool dealer John Gainsborough and his wife Mary. Demonstrating prodigious talent from childhood, he sketched landscapes in the local woods and fields, fostering his lifelong passion for the genre. At age thirteen, he moved to London, where he trained under the French engraver and illustrator Hubert-Fr...

Landscape with a Figure Carrying a Bundle of Branches, a Copice Behind, Two Cows in a Field at Left

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