Landscape with a Figure Herding Cattle to Water
Medium
Etching, soft-ground etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed and inlaid): 10 1/16 × 12 13/16 in. (25.5 × 32.5 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
59.533.1901
About the Artist
Thomas Gainsborough|Thomas Rowlandson|John Thane|Carl Friedrich Abel · 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...