Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle 1797

This mezzotint, "Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle," is a work by the renowned English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). The print is a landscape scene, featuring a group of cattle crossing a stone bridge in a wooded setting. The composition also includes a couple in a romantic embrace, a ruined castle, and a group of herdsmen driving the cattle. This mezzotint was published in 1797, nine years after Gainsborough’s death, and is now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.