The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 27, 2023

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage

published in 1797

Thomas Gainsborough

(British, 1727–1788)

England, 18th century

Softground etching and aquatint

Gift of William Ellery Greene for the Lucy S. Greene Collection 1963.566

Catalogue raisonné: Hayes 5

Location

not on view

Description

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.

Exhibition history

Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century". No exhibition catalogue.

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).

Eight Masters of the Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 14, 1980-January 18, 1981).

Two Hundred Years of British Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9, 1984-February 3, 1985).

Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).

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