Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows, Thomas Gainsborough, August 1, 1797

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Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows, August 1, 1797, Aquatint (sugar-lift process), printed in brown ink, plate: 10 7/8 x 13 11/16 in. ( x cm), Prints, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London), 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

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Size: 4761px × 3833px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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