Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures, 1779/1780, published 1797

Not on View

Medium

soft-ground etching printed in brown on wove paper

Dimensions

plate (image): 29.9 × 39 cm (11 3/4 × 15 3/8 in.)
plate (text): 2 × 39.6 cm (13/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

sheet: 32 × 40 cm (12 5/8 × 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hayes 1972, no. 9, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1976.39.1

Artists / Makers

Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788

John Boydell (publisher) British, 1719 - 1804

Josiah Boydell (publisher) British, 1752 - 1817

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, at upper left: 3; on separate plate below: Designed & Engraved by Tho.s Gainsborough. / Pub. as the Act directs Aug.t 1. 1797. by J. & J. Boydell. No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery. Pall Mall; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 260

Exhibition History

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 32.

Bibliography

1972: Hayes, John Trevor. Gainsborough as printmaker. London: A Zwemmer, 1972.