Thomas Gainsborough
Wooded Landscape with Donkey and Figures

CultureBritish
Titles
  • Wooded Landscape with Donkey and Figures
Datec. 1759
PlaceEngland
MediumGraphite on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 6 5/16 × 8 1/8 in. (16 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Mrs. Robert C. Stuart and Mrs. Philip Koelsch
Object number96.797
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; presumably given by the artist to his friend, the artist Joshua Kirby (1716–1784), Kew; his daughter, Sarah Kirby Trimmer (1741–1810), Brentwood, Middlesex; her son, the Rev. Henry Scott Trimmer (1777–1859), Heston, Middlesex; his son, Frederick Edmond Trimmer (1813–1883), Heston, Middlesex; [his sale, Sotheby's, London, December 22, 1883, lot 357 (as one of “five Pencil Sketches by Gainsborough”)]; purchased by Edward Bell (1844–1926), London, 1883-1926; by descent to Mildred Glanville (dates unknown); by whom given to Donald Chisholm Towner (1903–1985), London, 1963–1986; [his estate sale, Sotheby’s London, Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century British Drawings & Watercolours, July 10, 1986, lot 46]; [Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York, 1986–1987]; [Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, by 1996]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Exhibition History"The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough: A Loan Exhibition," 1987.

"Landscape Imagery in Works on Paper," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 24—September 19, 2004.
Catalogue raisonnéHayes 240
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