Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures
August 1, 1797
Medium
Soft-ground etching and aquatint, hand-colored; second state of two
Dimensions
plate: 12 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. (32.4 x 39.4 cm) sheet: 14 x 16 3/4 in. (35.6 x 42.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942
Accession Number
42.27.3
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Gainsborough|John & Josiah Boydell · 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough was born on 14 May 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest of nine children to wool dealer John Gainsborough and his wife Mary. Demonstrating prodigious talent from childhood, he sketched landscapes in the local woods and fields, fostering his lifelong passion for the genre. At age thirteen, he moved to London, where he trained under the French engraver and illustrator Hubert-Fr...