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Thomas Gainsborough|John & Josiah Boydell

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

August 1, 1797
Soft-ground etching and aquatint, hand-colored; fourth state of four
32.5 × 39.4 cm (12.8 × 15.5 in)

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