A Rocky Wooded Landscape with a Figure by a Stream
Thomas Gainsborough · 1781 · black and gray wash with pen and black ink on tan laid paper
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About this picture
A Rocky Wooded Landscape with a Figure by a Stream is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, dated 1781. Black and gray wash with pen and black ink on tan laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“A Rocky Wooded Landscape with a Figure by a Stream” (1781) 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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