Pastoral landscape with figures

Modern pastoral landscape; foreground, tree trunk of a pine?, long grass and the cast shadow? of a figure?; middleground, a tree growing on a slant, open fields, and five figures, one man and four women, standing or walking down a lane; background, telegraph poles, a house and three large hills one with a hilltop castle; sky, three stylised cumulus clouds. Etching with dust-ground aquatint and extensive burnished highlights. In the foliage of the tree on the upper margin is a mezzotint-like texture. Paper has the watermark 'ARCHES FRANCE'