Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep

ca. 1770

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, blue and brown washes, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 5/8 in. (22.4 × 32 cm)
Collection no.: 1972.118.291
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Thomas Gainsborough. Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep. Thomas Gainsborough; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep — Thomas Gainsborough. ca. 1770.

Medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, blue and brown washes, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 5/8 in. (22.4 × 32 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

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.

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