Thomas Gainsborough
Figures and Cattle Beside a Woodland Pool

Figures and Cattle Beside a Woodland Pool

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Figures and Cattle Beside a Woodland Pool
ArtistBritish, 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 Jonathan and Cressida Yarker
Object number2017.429
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance[London, Christie’s, “Old Master & British Drawings,” 20 November 2003, lot 3]; Private collection, 2003; Private collection, UK, 2003-2015; [Lowell-Libson, Ltd., London], by 2016; to MFAH November 2017.
Exhibition HistorySee above.
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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