Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures

1779/1780, published 1797

Thomas Gainsborough

Artist, British, 1727 - 1788

John Boydell

Publisher, British, 1719 - 1804

Josiah Boydell

Publisher, British, 1752 - 1817

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    soft-ground etching printed in brown on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1976.39.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hayes 1972, no. 9, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q65578226

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