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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough. The drawing is of some cattle next to some water; there appears to be two large animals standing next to a few younger animals, but they are very loosely sketched. The pool of water is in the bottom right-hand corner. There are trees behind the cattle, their leaves indicated by short brushstrokes.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"16.
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
(b. 1727; d. 1788)
CATTLE BY WATER
Collection of Arthur Kay, Esq. Brush and black and grey wash, heightened with white. 34.7 x 26.7 cm. (13 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.).
One of the landscape compositions of which Gainsborough drew so many in his later period, using often lumps of coal or bits of rock, with twigs, &c., when he worked by candlelight in the evenings to give the hint to his imagination. But 'composition' seems a heavy word to describe these things, which fascinate by their caressing lightness of touch and instinctive grasp of the wholeness of a design.
L. B."
Technique: reproduction
medium: printed reproduction
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Thomas Gainsborough, Cattle by Water (1920.1365). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.104046 | Go to resource |
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