Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1785

Artist

Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)

Date

ca. 1785

Medium

Brown chalk, washed with black ink and touched with white gouache (bodycolor)

Size

Sheet: 9 15/16 × 12 1/2 in. (25.2 × 31.8 cm)

Type

Drawings

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed