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Etched by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British, The Gipsies, 1764
- Title:
The Gipsies
- Additional Title(s):
Wooded Landscape with Gipsies round a Camp Fire
- Date:
- 1764
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 × 17 3/4 inches (50.8 × 45.1 cm), Image: 18 3/4 × 16 5/8 inches (47.6 × 42.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered below image: "Painted and Etch'd by T: Gainsborough | Engrav'd and Finish'd by J. Wood | The Gipsies | Published by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London 1764".
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11608
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- dog (animal) | fence | fire | genre subject | gypsies | trees | woods
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31239
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Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
James Hamilton, Gainsborough A Portrait, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, p. 131, NJ18.G16 H36 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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