Wooded Landscape with Cows at a Watering Place, Figures and Cottage

Thomas Gainsborough R.A.

c. 1785

Aquatint printed in brown

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A pastoral scene depicts several cows drinking from a stream in the foreground, with figures and sheep on a hill in the background. A thatched cottage is visible to the right. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts owns the only known impression of this gentle aquatint. The subject is the countryside of England's East Suffolk, which painter and printmaker Thomas Gainsborough turned to repeatedly for his subject matter. The tonal printing method of aquatint allowed for a particularly painterly approach to the landscape. Gallery Not on View The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916