Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows, August 1, 1797, Aquatint (sugar-lift process), printed in brown ink, plate: 10 7/8 x 13 11/16 in. (27.6 x 34.7 cm), Prints, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London), Most famous for his dashing portraits of eighteenth-century society figures, Gainsborough was also a highly skilled printmaker who in his late career experimented with the 'sugar-lift' aquatint medium—named after a sugar and ink solution used to draw on the plate that later dissolves when immersed in water
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Wooded Landscape, Herdsmen, Cows, August 1, 1797, Aquatint, sugar-lift process, printed, brown ink, plate, 10 7/8 x 13 11/16, 27.6 34.7 cm, Prints, Thomas Gainsborough, British, Sudbury, 1727–1788, London, famous, dashing portraits, eighteenth-century society, figures, Gainsborough, highly skilled, printmaker, late career, experimented, sugar-lift, aquatint medium—, sugar, ink solution, draw, later dissolves, immersed, water
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