Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep
ca. 1770
Medium
Black chalk, pen and black ink, blue and brown washes, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 5/8 in. (22.4 × 32 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Accession Number
1972.118.291
Tags
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...