Mountain Landscape with Figures and Buildings
Thomas Gainsborough
mid-to-late 1780s
Medium
Black and white chalk with stumping, on blue-gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 15 15/16 in. (26.2 × 40.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number
07.283.6
Tags
BuildingsMountainsLandscapes
About the Artist
Thomas Gainsborough · 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...