A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses), ca. 1780, Black chalk and brown wash, sheet: 9 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (23. 2 x 27. 7 cm), Drawings, Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727?1788 London), Using brown wash defined by a pen strokes, Gainsborough constructs a landscape from a few elements--a traveler sits on a bank near his dog and loaded donkey, trees border a path, and a rider moves into the distance