Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)
published in 1797
Medium
softground etching and aquatint
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection
Accession Number
1963.566
Tags
male
About this artwork
Gainsborough was one of the first English artists to attempt original work using the newly invented techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching. His almost impressionistic handling of these new media was perfectly in keeping with his chalk, pencil, and washed sketches of the landscape. The freshness and vitality of Gainsborough’s original prints, all published posthumously, place them among the greatest of all original English landscape prints.