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Thomas Gainsborough
British, 1727 - 1788
Study of Mallows
mid- to late 1750s
Image Caption
Thomas Gainsborough, Study of Mallows, mid- to late 1750s, graphite with stumping on white laid paper, with gum fixative. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.65
Medium
graphite with stumping on white laid paper, with gum fixative
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (19.3 x 15.5 cm)
Object Number
2007.8.65
Acquisition
Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
. Flowers and the Artist. Harrogate Festival, August 1967. Woodall, Mary. Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings. 1939. . Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough. Nottingham, Nottingham University Art Gallery, November 1-25, 1962. 1962. Hayes, John. The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough. 2 vols. New Haven: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art by Yale University Press, 1970. Parris, Leslie. Landscape in Britain c.1750 - 1850. Tate Gallery, London; November 21, 1973-February 3, 1974. London: Tate Publishing. 1973. . The Painter's Eye. June 1977. Gainsborough's House. 1977. . Flowers in Art from East and West. May-September 1979. London: British Museum. 1979. Hayes, John. Thomas Gainsborough. Tate Gallery, London, October 7, 1980-January 4, 1981. London: Tate Publishing;. 1980. . Gainsborough 1727-1788. Grand Palais, Paris, February 6-April 27, 1981. Paris: Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux. 1981. Gainsborough's Family. Exh. cat. 12 March to 24 April 1988. Sudbury, England: Gainsborough's House. 1988. Spink & Son. British Watercolours and Drawings. May 28-June 21, 1996. London: Spink & Son. 1996. Hayes, John. Gainsborough and Rowlandson: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published privately, 1998. Rosenthal, Michael and Martin Myrone, eds. Thomas Gainsborough 1727-1788. Tate Britain, London, October 24, 2002-January 19, 2003; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, February 8-May 11, 2003; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 15-September 14, 2003. London: Tate Publishing. 2002. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray; Henry S. Reitlinger (his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 Jan. 1954, no. 147, sold to Squire Gallery); [Squire Gallery, sold to Torbock by 1962]; H. Cornish Torbock (by 1962–1994, his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 14 Apr. 1994, no. 63, sold to Spink); [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1994–1995, sold to Manton, Sept. 1995]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1995–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.