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Thomas Gainsborough
British, 1727 - 1788
Landscape with Figures, Herdsman and Cattle at a Pool, and Distant Church
mid to late 1780s
Image Caption
Thomas Gainsborough, Landscape with Figures, Herdsman and Cattle at a Pool, and Distant Church, mid to late 1780s, watercolor and gouache with lead white on beige laid paper, fixed with gum, varnished with mastic. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.76
Medium
watercolor and gouache with lead white on beige laid paper, fixed with gum, varnished with mastic
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 11/16 x 12 1/16 in. (22.1 x 30.7 cm)
Object Number
2007.8.76
Acquisition
Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
. Early English Water-colours at Hovingham Hall. York. 1957. 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. 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
Fitzwilliams of Wiganthorpe; Miss Elsie Fitzwilliam, by descent, sold to Worsley, 1956; Sir William Worsley (in 1956, given to Kent); Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, later Duchess of Kent, his daughter; [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, no. K3 8389 and P8416, sold to Manton, May 1991]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1991–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.