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Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage
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About this 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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage , published in 1797. Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788). Softground etching and aquatint. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection, 1963.566
