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Wooded Moonlight Landscape with Pool and Figure at the Door of a Cottage Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) about 1781-1782 Great Britain Transparent oil on glass 27.9 x 33.7 cm Museum no. P.33-1955 Bequeathed through the National Art Collections Fund by Ernest E. Cook 1955 In 1824 this work was described as: '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'.

Wooded Moonlight Landscape with Pool and Figure at the Door of a Cottage, Thomas Gainsborough

Wooded Moonlight Landscape with Pool and Figure at the Door of a Cottage
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
about 1781-1782
Great Britain
Transparent oil on glass
27.9 x 33.7 cm
Museum no. P.33-1955

Bequeathed through the National Art Collections Fund by Ernest E. Cook 1955
In 1824 this work was described as: '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'.