Print made by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Title:
Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church
Date:
1779 to 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching in gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 9/16 inches (30.2 × 39.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, upper left: "24"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.11603
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
birds | evening | dog (animal) | donkeys | man | woman | reading | peasants | lovers | men | old | hills | church | tombstone | graveyard | post | landscape | genre subject | woods | meadow | valley | tombs | ruins
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29)Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process (International Print Center New York, 2000-11-02 - 2001-01-14)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Hard pressed : 600 years of prints and process, , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 2000, p. 55, no. 37, NE400 P58 2000 + (YCBA)