# Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

- By: Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London)
- Date: 1787
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 58 1/8 x 47 3/8 in. (147.6 x 120.3 cm)
- Culture: British
- Credit line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436440)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/web-large/DP169640.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)