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Wooded landscape

Maker

(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Wooded landscape

Date of Production

(circa) 1780

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.2 cm
Width: 35.6 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.17

Mode of Acquisition

Dorothy Scharf, bequest, 2007 (March)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), L.2341a; by descent to Edward John, 8th Earl Spencer, Althorp House, Northamptonshire (1924-1992); purchased from him by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London), 1979; purchased there by Mrs Josephine Scharf (1914-2004); by descent to her daughter, Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004); Scharf Bequest 2007

Exhibition History

Gainsborough exhibition, Sir Philip Sassoon's house, London, 1936

Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, Oxford Arts Club, 10/06/1935-15/07/1935

Literature

Belsey, Hugh, 'A Second Supplement to John Hayes's "The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough"' in 'Master Drawings', Winter 2008 - 427-541; 46, no. 4
no. 462
see attached PDF

109th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1982
no. 13

Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
no. 462 ...More

Woodall, Mary, Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, London 1939
no. 296 and p. 63 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right of centre: "I. TAYLOR" (see Heawood 108, where it appears with a Strasburg bend as countermark - London 1674).

Inscription: Verso: upper right, graphite: "Gainsboro".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: Earl Spencer (L.2341a).

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