Landscape with Figures Binding a Bundle of Wood
Medium
Etching, soft-ground etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed and laid down): 11 5/16 × 14 3/8 in. (28.8 × 36.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.337
Art Historical Context
**Landscape with Figures Binding a Bundle of** (1789) is a captivating print that showcases a collaborative effort among prominent British artists of the late 18th. Published by John Thane, it etching by Thomas Rowlandson—a master known for his lively caricatures and reproductive prints—after an original composition by Thomas Gainsborough, the celebrated Rococo landscape painter. Carl Friedrich Abel contributed the aquatint, rich tonal depth. Produced on May 21, 1789, this work exemplifies the era's innovative printmaking, blending etching, soft-ground etching, and aquatint in brown ink to evo...