Artist
Thomas Gainsborough(British, 1727–1788)British, 1727–1788
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
Not on view
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
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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