WHAT ARE MEMORY MAPS? MARINA WARNER
Thomas Gainsborough (RA), 'Wooded Moonlight Landscape with Pool and Figure at the Door of a Cottage', about 1781. Museum no. P.33-1955, bequeathed by Ernest E. Cook, through the National Art Collections Fund
Thomas Gainsborough (RA)
'Wooded Moonlight Landscape with Pool and Figure at the Door of a Cottage'
Great Britain
About 1781
Transparent oil on glass
Museum no. P.33-1955
Bequeathed by Ernest E. Cook, through the National Art Collections Fund
The following description of this painting appeared in 1824. 'The Cottage - Representing a most powerful effect of fire-light in the interior. The artist has given considerable interest to this subject by introducing the cottager opening the door: the contrast between the light of the cottage and that of the moon, excite the most pleasing association in the mind'.