Art, literature & history
A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots
1787
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping, heightened with touches of white gouache and traces of white chalk, on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- 48.5 × 29.6 cm (19 1/8 × 11 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1993.175
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Gainsborough. A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots — Thomas Gainsborough. 1787.
Medium: Black chalk with stumping, heightened with touches of white gouache and traces of white chalk, on buff laid paper. Dimensions: 48.5 × 29.6 cm (19 1/8 × 11 11/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.