Mountain Landscape with Figures and Buildings, mid-to-late 1780s, Black and white chalk with stumping, on blue-gray paper, Sheet: 10 5/16 ? 15 15/16 in. (26. 2 ? 40. 5 cm), Drawings, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727?1788 London), Once thought to date to the mid-1770s, when Gainsborough moved to London from Bath, the handling of this sheet now suggests a date following the artist's visit to the Lake District in 1783. His early drawings respond to the English landscape, but this composition is an imagined conflation that demonstrates admiration for Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet conveyed using black and white chalks on blue paper, a seventeenth-century technique