Thomas Gainsborough
Figures and Cattle Beside a Woodland Pool

CultureBritish
Titles
  • Figures and Cattle Beside a Woodland Pool
Datec. 1777
MediumGray washes over traces of black chalk and heightened with white chalk on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 10 5/8 × 13 5/8 in. (27 × 34.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Jonny and Cressida Yarker
Object number2017.429
Non exposé

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ProvenancePrivate collection, UK, 2003; [Christie’s, London, British Art on Paper, November 20, 2003, lot 3]; private collection, 2003-2015; [Lowell-Libson, Ltd., London, by 2016-2017; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Exhibition HistoryBritish Art: Recent Acquisitions, Lowell Libson Ltd, London, 2016, 26-27, illus. (cat.).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Watermark: Recto, center right: unidentified [possible Coat of Arms with diagonal bends]
Catalogue raisonnéNoted in the second supplement to John Hayes’s The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough (see above).
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