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Thomas Gainsborough

Landscape with a Waterfall, 1700s

Description

Maker

Title

Landscape with a Waterfall

Year

1700s

Medium

Watercolor applied with brush, and crayon

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

Plate: 20.3 x 25.7 cm (8 x 10 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

On mount, in brown ink, LL: "T. G." ; on mount, center, outer margin in pencil: "T Gainsborough"

Verso: stamped with collector's mark of Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963; Lugt 1405a); and of Alfred A. de Pass (1861-1953; Lugt 108a)

Type

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

73.204.21

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Luminous Landscapes

May 27 - August 14, 2005

Although best known in his own time and today as a portraitist, Gainsborough was an equally talented landscape artist. Here, the serenity of the scene with small waterfall is conveyed in a pale, neutral watercolor palette with rocks and foliage correspondingly described in soft crayon. The motifs, likely inspired by travel to picturesque mountain areas in Britain and then reinterpreted in the drawing, are similar to those in his paintings from the years 1782 to 1784.

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