Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures
Date:
1779 to 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and soft-ground etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 15 1/8 inches (29.2 × 38.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on original eighteenth-century mount in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Gainsborough fecit with his own hand on soft copper"; in graphite, lower right: "Gainsborough"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower center: "The Drawings by Gainsborough are executed by his hand on soft copper ground - | Colnaghi"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29)Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19)Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Gainsborough and the landscape of refinement, Lowell Libson Ltd., London, 2014, p. 50, NJ18.G16 G3 2014