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Wooded landscape with cows

Maker

(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Date of Production

1765 - 1769

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash and blue-grey watercolour on laid paper, laid down; some loss of media and a thumbprint visible at lower right

Dimensions

Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 23.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2867

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

Edward Cheney, Shropshire (1803-1884) [his name written on Witt's index card]; his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 30 April 1885, lot 321; Starkey [this name written on Witt's index card - or is this a misreading of the inscription on the verso, which reads 'Mr Stanley'?]; Philip Stanhope, Lord Weardale, Kent (1847-1923) [his name written on Witt's index card]; Mrs Frances Evans; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London) 22 November 1937; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 7 January 1943 (£25); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

An exhibition of drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, Sand Hill, Aldeburgh, 1949

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950 ...More

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

catalogue untraced, Churchill Club, London, 1945

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938 ...Less

Literature

Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
no. 304

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 22

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 24
pl. I ...More

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 26
pl. I

Woodall, Mary, Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, London 1939
no. 374 and on pp. 18, 57-8, 100
pl. 63 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none in the drawing. Backing sheet: upper centre edge: “1818”. Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D): centre: Strasburg Lily over letters “GR” (matches Heawood 1849 – n.d. or location).

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower centre, graphite: “Mr Stanley“; lower right corner, graphite, circled: “E.1405“. Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Verso: lower right, brown ink: “Sanish [?]“.

Label: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Verso: lower right, printed in black: "BROUGHTON".

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