Thomas Gainsborough
Wooded Landscape with Donkey and Figures

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Artist Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)British, 1727–1788

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, in memory of Philip and John Koelsch, who attended Westminster School in London in the 1930s

Object number96.797

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Special Collections

The Stuart Collection

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

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 HistoryBritish Watercolors, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York, October 1-November 15, 1986, cat. no. 14. (cat.).

Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788): A Loan Exhibition, Davis & Langdale Company, New York, 1987, cat. no. 4. (cat., Lindsay Stainton).

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

Gainsborough's Landscapes: Themes and Variations, Holburne Museum, Bath, 2012, cat. no. 51 (cat., Susan Sloman).

Catalogue raisonnéHayes 240

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