Study of a meadow with sheep and distant farm buildings
Maker
(artist)
1727-1788
1727-1788
Title
Study of a meadow with sheep and distant farm buildings
Date of Production
1780 - 1785
Medium
black and white chalk on greenish-brown laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 15.2 cm
Width: 20.4 cm
Width: 20.4 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4110
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
studio sale, Christie's (London), 11 May 1799, lot 82, 84 or 88 as part of a sketchbook; purchased there by George Hibbert, London (1757-1837); by descent to Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert (1855-1935); his sale, Christie's (London), 30 June 1913; anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 17 December 1947, lot 13; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; 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
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
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
Literature
Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
no. 570
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. 25
no. 570
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. 25
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: top of a crown, as on a Strasburg lily.
Inscription: Verso: centre, brown ink, same hand on D.1952.RW.4006: "No. 23".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Verso: centre, brown ink, same hand on D.1952.RW.4006: "No. 23".
Collector's mark: none.
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