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Wooded landscape with a cow on a bank

Maker

(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Wooded landscape with a cow on a bank

Date of Production

(circa) 1745

Medium

graphite on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 16.4 cm
Width: 21.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4158

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

anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 14 July 1948, lot 170 (with three others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 21 April 1949 (£10); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Painter's Eye: an exhibition to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, 1977

Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 01/11/1962-25/11/1962

Gainsborough drawings, London; York City Art Gallery; four other venues, 1960-61

Literature

Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
no. 70
pl. 5

Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1962
no. 30

Gainsborough drawings, London; York City Art Gallery; four other venues, 1960-61
cat. no. 1 ...More

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: lower half of a Vryheyt mark - double bordered circle with "EIUSQUE LIBERT[...]" visible around the edges, containing a lion standing on a platform labelled "VRYHEYT" (potential matches in Churchill are 81, 82, 84, 86 etc., dated 1704-1757 and potentially later).

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower left, graphite, acc. no.: "4158"; lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A15687".

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

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