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Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church, Thomas Gainsborough

Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church

Thomas Gainsborough (British) (1727-1788)

Movement
Rococo
Date
1797
Medium
Soft-ground etching and aquatint, hand-colored; fourth state of four
Dimensions
32.5 × 39.4 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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