Cleveland Museum of Art

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage

Thomas Gainsborough

Date

published in 1797

Medium

softground etching and aquatint

Culture

England, 18th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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