Landscape with Peasants, Cows, Sheep, Cottages and Pool
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
About 1786
Oil on glass
Museum no. P.34-1955

Bequeathed through the National Art Collections Fund by Ernest E. Cook 1955

Gainsborough painted many landscapes, depicting cottagers and their animals in a highly idealised state of rustic contentment. They express his nostalgia at a time of rapid change in rural areas.