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 Jonny and Cressida Yarker
Object number2017.429
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
209 Nicandros Gallery
On view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Special Collections
Object Type
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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