- Title:
Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures
- Date:
- 1779 to 1780
- Medium:
- 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), Mount: 15 1/8 × 18 5/8 inches (38.4 × 47.3 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"
Dot of red wax on verso
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11606
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boulder | carts | dog (animal) | genre subject | landscape | mules (mammals)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25489
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The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Gainsborough and the landscape of refinement, Lowell Libson Ltd., London, 2014, p. 50, NJ18.G16 G3 2014 [ORBIS]