Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage (published in 1797): Art, History and Details

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage (published in 1797) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage
• Date: published in 1797
• Creator attribution: Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)
• Culture: England, 18th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: softground etching and aquatint
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1963.566

Collection credit

Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection

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