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A loosely rendered black and white chalk sketch of a landscape. In it is a cottage surrounded by trees. Figures and cows hide are barely visible within the landscape. A loosely rendered black and white chalk sketch of a landscape. In it is a cottage surrounded by trees. Figures and cows hide are barely visible within the landscape.

Thomas Gainsborough

Wooded Landscape with Cottages, Figures, and Cows,

Maker

  • Thomas Gainsborough

Title

Wooded Landscape with Cottages, Figures, and Cows

Medium

chalk, white heightening, stump

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Black chalk with stumping and white chalk on blue laid paper (faded)

Techniques

  • Black chalk with stumping and white chalk on blue laid paper (faded)

Supports

  • Faded blue paper

Dimensions

26 x 36.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches)

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

71.153.1

Wooded Landscape with Cottages, Figures, and Cows

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
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Selection II

British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection

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Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
Read Online

Selection II

British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer

March 12 - September 4, 2022

The English Eye

June 21 - September 1, 1991

Selection II

April 13 - May 14, 1972
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