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Thomas Gainsborough
British, 1727 - 1788
Wooded Landscape with a Cottage and Cows
mid-1770s
Image Caption
Thomas Gainsborough, Wooded Landscape with a Cottage and Cows, mid-1770s, black chalk, watercolor, and gouache on paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.68
Medium
black chalk, watercolor, and gouache on paper
Dimensions
8 7/16 x 11 9/16 in. (21.5 x 29.4 cm)
Object Number
2007.8.68
Acquisition
Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Colnaghi. English Drawings and Watercolours. November 15-December 20, 1979. London: Colnaghi. 1979. Hayes, John. "Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonne." Master Drawings. 21.4 (Winter 1983). 1983. Spink & Son. English Watercolour Drawings. Spink & Son, London, April-May 1988; Davis & Langdale, New York, October-November 1989. 1988. Hayes, John. Gainsborough and Rowlandson: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published privately, 1998. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.
Provenance
[P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, by 1977–1979]; Mrs. Charles Ward-Jackson; Kimbell Art Museum; Kimbell Art Foundation, sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16 July 1987, no. 96, sold to Spink; [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1987–1994, no. K3 9477, sold to Manton, May 1994]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1994–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.