Wooded Landscape with Stream
Thomas Gainsborough · 1750–59 · Brush and black ink and gray wash, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, pieced along both vertical edges and laid down on cream laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Wooded Landscape with Stream is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1750–59. Brush and black ink and gray wash, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, pieced along both vertical edges and laid down on cream laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Wooded Landscape with Stream” (1750–59) is either a portrait of a fashionable sitter or a landscape Gainsborough assembled from outdoor studies.
About the artist
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was an English painter of portraits and landscapes. The sitters are fashionable. The landscapes were often invented from studies rather than painted as one view.
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