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Woman and children sitting in front of the entrance gate to a house

Maker

(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Woman and children sitting in front of the entrance gate to a house

Date of Production

(circa) 1780

Medium

black chalk offset, reinforced with black and brown chalk, grey wash and white bodycolour on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 32.2 cm
Width: 26.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4034

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

Henry Joseph Pfungst (1844-1917); his sale at Christie's (London), 15 June 1917, lot 66; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); Spink & Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£95); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
no. 717

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Gainsbor[...]". Mount (historic), Verso, centre, graphite: "D"; centre, graphite: "51 x 45"; left, graphite, partly erased: "Thomas Gainsborough / The Entrance Gate of a House near Bath / with a woman + Child + [illegible word] in the foreground / £fk Collection No. 76"; lower right corner, graphite: "K. 1146".

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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