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Landscape with a figure carrying sticks

Maker

(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1750 - 1755

Medium

graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.3 cm
Width: 19.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.554

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

Notes

An engraving of this composition, in reverse, was made by W.F. Wells and Laporte, published 1 May 1803; it appears in Laporte's Prints from Drawings and Sketches by Gainsborough, 1803. The fragmentary watermark is the same as that on D.1952.RW.3950.

Provenance

the artist's 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, lot 17; purchased there by Leggatt Bros (London); Sotheby's (London), n.d., lot 3? (along with D.1952.RW.552); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (on a former mount, now missing) (£2); 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

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

Literature

Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
no. 165
Illus. pl. 52

Gainsborough drawings, London; York City Art Gallery; four other venues, 1960-61
cat. no. 12

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 21 ...More

Woodall, Mary, Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, London 1939
no. 83 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: top edge of a crown surmounted by a cross (too fragmentary to identify, but similar to the one on D.1952.RW.3950.)

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, now missing, attested to in Hayes 1970), Verso: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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