Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures

1779/1780

Thomas Gainsborough

Associated Names
Thomas Gainsborough

Artist, British, 1727 - 1788

The image shows a rural scene with a low horizon featuring rolling hills, two birds flying, a figure on a horse-drawn cart with another cart and figure nearby, and a dog walking ahead. Trees are on the left and right sides, with detailed brushstrokes creating textures. The color palette is monochromatic, with dark tree forms contrasting the lighter sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    soft-ground etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate (image): 29.9 × 39 cm (11 3/4 × 15 3/8 in.)
    plate (text): 1.2 × 39 cm (1/2 × 15 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 32.3 × 41.8 cm (12 11/16 × 16 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1985.31.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hayes 1972, no. 9, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Artemis Fine Arts, Inc., New York); purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

Bibliography

1972

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

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Publish'd as the Act directs, Feb,y 1est: 1780, (and a word effaced)

Wikidata ID

Q74067315

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