Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures
1779/1780
Medium
soft-ground etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate (image): 29.9 × 39 cm (11 3/4 × 15 3/8 in.) plate (text): 1.2 × 39 cm (1/2 × 15 3/8 in.) sheet: 32.3 × 41.8 cm (12 11/16 × 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1985.31.1
About the Artist
Thomas Gainsborough · 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...