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A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots, 1787. Black chalk with stumping, heightened with touches of white gouache and traces of white chalk, on buff laid paper.
Black chalk with stumping, heightened with touches of white gouache and traces of white chalk, on buff laid paper · 48.5 × 29.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough English, 1727-1788
- Date
- 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.)
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1727–1788
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.