Open Landscape with Shepherd, Sheep and Pool
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
About 1786
Oil on glass
Museum no. P.36-1955

Bequeathed through the National Art Collections Fund by Ernest E. Cook 1955
The centre of this landscape is dominated by a reflective expanse of water – here lit by moonlight. Gainsborough also made a rough copy of this composition in reverse.