Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows August 1, 1797 Thomas Gainsborough British Most famous for his dashing portraits of eighteenth-century society figures, Gainsborough was also a highly skilled printmaker who in his late career experimented with the "sugar-lift" aquatint medium—named after a sugar and ink solution used to draw on the plate that later dissolves when immersed in water. The subject of grazing cows in a sun-struck sylvan setting recalls seventeenth-century Dutch Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows 360266

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