Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep, ca. 1785, Brown chalk, washed with black ink and touched with white gouache, on buff wove paper, Sheet: 9 15/16 ? 12 1/2 in. (25. 2 ? 31. 8 cm), Drawings, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727?1788 London), With expressive freedom, Gainsborough here uses ink wash and white gouache over chalk lines on buff paper. The artist created this work, with others of the same date, to appeal to collectors of old master drawings