English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)

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Duphalac : suspends the monthly sentence of dysmenorrhoea.

Twenty portraits of famous men. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

The Moysey family : an exhibition at Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, 19th May to 8th July 1984 / Hugh Belsey.

Flitwick : an English medicinal spring which yields the most invigorating tonic in the world ... for anaemia (poorness of blood), rheumatism, indigestion, general debility, and neuralgia, and is the most invigorating tonic in the world ... wholesale depot: 63 Borough High Street, S.E.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by J. Jenkins, 1828, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Ralph Schomberg. Stipple engraving by W. T. Fry after T. Gainsborough.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by Holl after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Landguard Fort; ships in the background, men in the foreground. Mezzotint by R. Josey after T. Gainsborough, 1880.

Thomas Pennant. Line engraving by B. Reading, 1812, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Thomas Pennant. Mezzotint by C. Tomkins, 1869, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Richard Warren. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1792, after T. Gainsborough.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1793, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by W. H. Lizars, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Thomas Pennant. Line engraving by J. K. Sherwin, 1778, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

A new inquiry into the suspension of vital action, in cases of drowning and suffocation : being an attempt to concentrate into a more luminous point of view, the scattered rays of science, respecting that interesting though mysterious subject : to elucidate the proximate cause, to appretiate the present remedies, and to point out the best method of restoring animation / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F. R. S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, honorary member of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris; also of the Philosophical Societies of Manchester, Philadelphia, &c.

Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, consort to King George III. Stipple engraving by Read, 1842, after T. Gainsborough.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1799, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

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Thomas Gainsborough

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Images by Thomas Gainsborough

Images featuring Thomas Gainsborough

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Thomas Pennant. Line engraving by J. K. Sherwin, 1778, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Thomas Pennant. Mezzotint by C. Tomkins, 1869, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, consort to King George III. Stipple engraving by Read, 1842, after T. Gainsborough.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1799, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Thomas Gainsborough

Images from the collections

Images by Thomas Gainsborough

Images featuring Thomas Gainsborough

Works from the collections

Thomas Pennant. Line engraving by J. K. Sherwin, 1778, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Thomas Pennant. Mezzotint by C. Tomkins, 1869, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, consort to King George III. Stipple engraving by Read, 1842, after T. Gainsborough.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1799, after T. Gainsborough, 1776.

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