Thomas Gainsborough RA, Wooded Landscape with Church, Cow and Figure

Wooded Landscape with Church, Cow and Figure, 1753-54

Thomas Gainsborough RA (1727 - 1788)

RA Collection: Art

Title
Wooded Landscape with Church, Cow and Figure
Artist/printmaker
Engraved by
Joseph Wood (b. 1720)
From
From Joshua Kirby's Dr Brook Taylor's Method of perspective made easy, Ipswich 1754, Book 2, pl. XVIII
Date
1753-54
Object type
Plate
Medium
Etching
Dimensions

99 mm x 155 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
04/3039
This image is from a book

Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective Made Easy, Both in Theory and Practice. In Two Books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To Adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design; And To make it an entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Painter. Illustrated with Fifty Copper Plates; most of which are Engrav'd by the Author. ... Book I. - Ipswich:: [1754]

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