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'I'm sick of Portraits and wish very much to take my Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet Village, where I can paint Landskips and enjoy the fag End of life in quietness and ease'
Thomas Gainsborough
Rare work
Rural Roaming
"The old common lands of England were being relentlessly enclosed by capitalist landowners when Thomas Gainsborough painted this woodland scene in 1748. It shows rural folk travelling in the free world of the woods. The sky over this dense chunk of British undergrowth is full of watery clouds whose swagging silver speaks of our place and our skies. British art had become self-consciously British by 1748. It had also become precociously romantic".
Jonathan Jones
The Story of British Art, Guardian interactive site
See also, posting on "Property and Painting"
Listen to the Viola da Gamba
See also, John Milton, L'Allegro:
Rare work
Rural Roaming
"The old common lands of England were being relentlessly enclosed by capitalist landowners when Thomas Gainsborough painted this woodland scene in 1748. It shows rural folk travelling in the free world of the woods. The sky over this dense chunk of British undergrowth is full of watery clouds whose swagging silver speaks of our place and our skies. British art had become self-consciously British by 1748. It had also become precociously romantic".
Jonathan Jones
The Story of British Art, Guardian interactive site
See also, posting on "Property and Painting"
Listen to the Viola da Gamba
See also, John Milton, L'Allegro:
| Streit mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the Lantskip round it measures, Russet Lawns, and Fallows Gray, Where the nibling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren brest The labouring clouds do often rest: Meadows trim with Daisies pide, Shallow Brooks, and Rivers wide. |
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