树木繁茂的景观，游泳池旁有奶牛，人物和小屋 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	树木繁茂的景观，游泳池旁有奶牛，人物和小屋
品名（英）	Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage
入馆年号	1937年，37.43.10
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Thomas Gainsborough【1727 至 1788】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1775 - 公元 1780
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 10 1/4 x 13 1/16 英寸 (26 x 33.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	成对的生物点缀着月光下的风景，排列得似乎是为了说明爱情的进展：在左边，两只牛依偎在一起；在中心，一对人类夫妇友好地斜倚在一根木头上；在右边，一个站立的身影若有所思地靠在一根棍子上，旁边还有一只忠诚的猎犬。鉴于其精致的绘画风格，这幅看似简单的场景可能制作于17世纪70年代末，但来之不易。Gainsborough使用了多种技术完成了这幅松软的地面蚀刻：他用雕刻师的锋利雕刻加强了树叶上的线条；在天空中形成了带有海蓝色调的平滑光线区域；并通过停下来保留了牛背上纸张的白色。然而，尽管有如此精湛的段落，Gainsborough还是避开了技术上的完美，只是忽略了他铜印版上的缺陷，这些缺陷导致了类似纸张折痕的横向线条。
介绍（英）	Pairs of creatures punctuate the moonlit landscape, arranged as if to illustrate the progress of love: at the left, two cattle nestle together; in the center, a human couple reclines companionably on a log; and at the right, a standing figure leans pensively against a staff, accompanied by a loyal hound. The apparently simple scene-probably made in the later 1770s, given its refined drawing style-was hard-won. Gainsborough completed this soft-ground etching using a variety of techniques: he strengthened lines in the foliage with an engraver's sharp burin; formed the smooth light areas in the sky with aquatint; and preserved the white color of the paper on the cow's back by stopping-out. Yet, despite such virtuoso passages, Gainsborough eschewed technical perfection and simply ignored the defects on his copper printing plate that created the lateral lines resembling creases in the sheet.