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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Although Gainsborough’s reputation rests largely on his portraits as it has done for a century or more he will perhaps ultimately be remembered as he himself would have wished for his landscapes. In these works Gainsborough presents a nostalgic interpretation of nature and of English country life which reflects the mood of the whole era one of unprecedented rural change under the impact of the industrial and agrarian revolutions. The landscape paintings have been the least carefully studied of all Gainsborough’s works principally because they are now dispersed throughout the world and there is no single concentration of them in a public museum as there is for example in the case of Constable or Turner. Nor is documentary or first-hand evidence any easier to seek than the pictures themselves. Gainsborough scarcely ever signed his landscapes and dated only one; he kept no account books and hardly any bills or receipts survive: the principal evidence is in the form of notices in the press from 1777 onwards. (OS)