Forest landscape.

Drawing, graphite pencil, 11,2 x 14,5 cm, vellum paper, signed and dated at the lower right corner "T. S. Cooper".

Charming forest view with three men walking in the far distance. Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902) was an English landscape painter noted for his images of cattle and farm animals. "At the age of twenty he went to London, drew for a while in the British Museum, and was admitted as a student of the Royal Academy. He then returned to Canterbury, where he was able to earn a living as a drawing-master and by the sale of sketches and drawings. In 1827 he settled in Brussels and married. Because of the Belgian Revolution he returned to London, and by showing his first picture at the Royal Academy (1833) began an unprecedentedly prolonged career as an exhibitor." (Wikipedia)
Ref. Bénézit II:618.