Wooded Landscape with two Country Carts and Figures

THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788) Wooded Landscape with two Country Carts and Figures soft-ground etching circa 1779-80 on stiff laid paper, without watermark a very fine impression of the extremely rare first state (of two) one of a few impressions printed by the artist himself, before the addition of the number 3 at top left and before the posthumous edition issued by J. & J. Boydell, London, 1797 trimmed to or just inside the subject generally in good condition Sheet: 11 ½ x 15 3⁄8 in. (293 x 390 mm.)