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Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough ink and wash landscape

Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane, Thomas Gainsborough ink and wash drawing
Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane, Thomas Gainsborough

On Google Art Project. High-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art.

There’s something about ink and wash drawings like this one that feel… complete, like a form of painting with all the visual charm of drawing.


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2 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough ink and wash landscape”

  1. Doesn’t it make us feel nostalgic? Just reading the title “Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane” comforts me. Thank you, Charley.

  2. In the 18th century, throughout, was landscape painting considered a lowly branch of art. Little did they know!
    http://www.gainsborough.org/page/481/The-Artist