Lot Essay
Like the other drawings of this group this dates from the mid 1780s. There is a variant, 9¾ x 12½in., in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Hayes, op.cit., p.249, no.607)
Details
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
Wooded Landscape with Sheep and Stream
black and white chalk on blue paper
9½ x 12in. (242 x 304mm.)
Wooded Landscape with Sheep and Stream
black and white chalk on blue paper
9½ x 12in. (242 x 304mm.)
Provenance
By descent since the nineteenth century
Literature
J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, pp.84, 248-9, no.606, repr.pl. 192