Wooded Landscape with Cattle by a Pool
Dating
exhibited 1782
Material / Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
120.4x147.6 cm
Object Number
1988.001
Display Status
On display
Description
Gainsborough exhibited this landscape at the 1782 annual Royal Academy exhibition. It was described in detail and praised by Sir Henry Bate Dudley in the Morning Herald, 1 May 1782: 'Mr. Gainsborough has exhibited but one Landscape - but that is his chef d'oeuvre in this line... that would have done honour to the most brilliant Claude Lorain!''
Credit Line
Purchased with grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund (The Wolfson Foundation and the Aileen and Vera Woodroffe Bequest), the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust (the Scarfe Charitable Trust and the A. J. Williams Charitable Trust), the Pilgrim Trust, the Bryan Guiness Charitable Trust, the South Square Trust, the John S. Cohen Foundation, the Simon Whitbread Charitable Trust by Suffolk County Council and transferred to Gainsborough's House Society, 1987-8