Landscape with Cattle by a Cottage
Thomas Gainsborough · late 1770s · black and white chalk over softground etching on gray prepared laid paper
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About this picture
Landscape with Cattle by a Cottage is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, dated late 1770s. Black and white chalk over softground etching on gray prepared laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Landscape with Cattle by a Cottage” (late 1770s) 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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