Image

Thomas Gainsborough

Coastal Scene with Figures, Ships and Buildings, ca. 1775-1780

Description

Maker

Title

Coastal Scene with Figures, Ships and Buildings

Year

ca. 1775-1780

Medium

Black and white chalks with stumping on blue laid paper (now faded)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

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

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

21.120

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

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.

Use

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