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Thomas Gainsborough

Coastal Scene with Figures, Ships and Buildings

Description

Maker

Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727-1788)

Title

Coastal Scene with Figures, Ships and Buildings

Year

ca. 1775-1780

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

chalk

Supports

Dimensions

24.1 x 31.1 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

21.120

Type

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh
Gifts from Eliza Greene Radeke and Helen Metcalf Danforth
Jun 05, 2008 – Oct 26, 2008

Label copy

This drawing exemplifies what Gainsborough sought in landscape, namely brevity and rhythmic flow. He achieved these goals by working over the entire sketch in large, diagonal, parallel lines. Primarily a portrait painter, Gainsborough made hundreds of on-site and imaginative landscape sketches, which he kept for himself or gave as gifts to friends.

Old Master Drawings
Sep 02, 1983 – Oct 16, 1983
Exhibition of 18th-Century Drawings and Watercolors
Apr 16, 1948 – Dec 03, 1948

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Tombstone

Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727-1788)
Coastal Scene with Figures, Ships and Buildings, ca. 1775-1780
Black and white chalks with stumping on blue laid paper (now faded)
24.1 x 31.1 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 21.120

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