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Thomas Gainsborough

Landscape with a Waterfall

Maker

Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727-1788)

Title

Landscape with a Waterfall

Year

1700s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

chalk, wash technique

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)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

73.204.21

Type

Exhibition History

Luminous Landscapes
British Watercolors from the Museum's Collection
May 27, 2005 – Aug 14, 2005

Label copy

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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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727-1788)
Landscape with a Waterfall, 1700s
Watercolor applied with brush, and crayon
Plate: 20.3 x 25.7 cm (8 x 10 1/8 inches)
Anonymous gift 73.204.21

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