Mountain Landscape with Figures and Buildings by Thomas Gainsborough — Thomas Gainsborough. Mountain Landscape with Figures and Buildings, mid-to-late 1780s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Mountain Landscape with Figures and Buildings

by Thomas Gainsborough

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Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)
Date: mid-to-late 1780s
Medium: Black and white chalk with stumping, on blue-gray paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 5/16 × 15 15/16 in. (26.2 × 40.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession no.: 07.283.6

Provenance

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