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Thomas Gainsborough|John & Josiah Boydell

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

August 1, 1797
Soft-ground etching; third state
29.7 × 37.4 cm (11.7 × 14.7 in)

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