Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir, Thomas Gainsborough, 1777

In a sketchy manner, gainsborough convincingly singled out the various elements comprising this sweeping landscape--meadow, rocks, trees--by only slightly varying colors and brushstrokes. At the same time, however, a great sense of unity prevails. Although the bulk of gainsborough's artistic out-put was portraits, he always insisted that landscape was his first love. Object Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: 1777. Place of creation: England, 18th century. Dimensions: Framed: 89.5 x 110 x 8 cm (35 1/4 x 43 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 70.5 x 91 cm (27 3/4 x 35 13/16 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1984.59