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Wooded Landscape with Stream

A work made of 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.
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  • A work made of 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.

Date:

1750–59

Artist:

Thomas Gainsborough
English, 1727-1788

About this artwork

Though more in demand for his society portraits, Thomas Gainsborough expressed his passion for landscape subjects in hundreds of drawings executed throughout of his career. Early drawings made en plein air inspired later landscape sketches, such as this one, that combined directly observed natural elements with more idealized compositions found in the 17th-century French paintings admired by Gainsborough. Clusters of short, detached strokes convey the movement of the trees in the background while longer horizontal lines describe the placid surface of the water running through the scene.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Thomas Gainsborough

Title

Wooded Landscape with Stream

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1750–1759

Medium

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

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink (possibly in the hand of William Esdaile): "Gainsboroug"

Dimensions

23.8 × 33.4 cm (9 3/8 × 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.943

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