Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep

Thomas Gainsborough British

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With expressive freedom, Gainsborough here uses ink wash and white gouache over chalk lines on buff paper. The artist created this work, with others of the same date, to appeal to collectors of old master drawings. Here the loose technique recalls Marco Ricci (1676–1730), and incorporates effects that Gainsborough developed while experimenting with soft-ground etching in the 1770s.

Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London), Brown chalk, washed with black ink and touched with white gouache (bodcolor)

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Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London), Brown chalk, washed with black ink and touched with white gouache (bodcolor)
Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London), Brown chalk, washed with black ink and touched with white gouache (bodcolor)

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