Wooded Landscape with Riders, mid 1780s, published 1797

Not on View

Medium

aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.3 × 24.5 cm (7 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 23.7 × 30 cm (9 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hayes 1972, no. 14, State ii

Accession Number

1976.39.2

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: 12; 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.

Exhibition History

1985: Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

Bibliography

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