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Study of a meadow with sheep and distant farm buildings

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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

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.

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