![]() ![]() Often seen as exemplars of the rural idyll, these works were among the first landscape paintings to reflect the eighteenth-century aesthetic of sensibility. Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set in a deeply wooded landscape. Magic, spectacle and the art of de Loutherbourg's eidophusikon / Iain McCalman.Gainsborough's Cottage door in Sir John Leicester's 'tent room' / Ann Bermingham.The early collectors of The cottage door / Dongho Chun.Gainsborough's cottage-door scenes: aesthetic principles, moral values / Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson. ![]() Gainsborough's cottage doors: a matter of modernity / Michael Rosenthal.Spectacles for republicans / John Barrell."Innocence and health": nursing women in Gainsborough's cottage-door paintings / Susan Sloman.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]()
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