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Thomas Gainsborough

1727 - 1788

Wooded Landscape with Country Cart, Cottage and Figures by Thomas Gainsborough
 

Wooded Landscape with Country Cart, Cottage and Figures   c.1783-86

  Catalogued by Hayes as an original soft ground etching by Thomas Gainsborough.
With the artist’s name in the plate.
Ref: Hayes 12, final state
S 460 x 588 mm; P 280 x 347 mm; I 251 x 324 mm
£315
 
Designed and (according to Hayes) etched by Thomas Gainsborough. From the second published edition of this soft ground etching, with J. Boydell’s 1797 publication line. As published in an edition of only 75 impressions in 1971, immediately before the plate entered the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery, London.

(For further details regarding the printing of Gainsborough's plates for this edition see the extended biography page for Thomas Gainsborough).

(The authorship of this work is currently under review by Conal Shields, curator of the Thomson Collection, and Hugh Belsey, former Curator of Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury and currently Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art charged with the task of writing the definitive catalogue of portraits by Thomas Gainsborough.)

Printed in black ink on hand-made J. Barcham Green’s ‘Penshurst’ rag paper, with full margins and deckle edge. Excellent condition.