Landscape with Buildings by a Stream
Thomas Gainsborough · 1782/86 · Charcoal and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray-brown laid paper, laid down on gray-brown laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Landscape with Buildings by a Stream is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1782/86. Charcoal and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray-brown laid paper, laid down on gray-brown laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Landscape with Buildings by a Stream” (1782/86) 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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