Wooded landscape with herdsmen, cows, river and church tower

Details

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
Wooded landscape with herdsmen, cows, river and church tower
pencil, with fragmentary watermark 'PROPATRIA', unframed
6¼ x 7¾ in. (16 x 19.7 cm.)

Provenance

Guy Bellingham Smith.
Lady Eason.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1964, lot 74, with another, sold to Bossuet.
with Savage, London.
Derek Melville, Yoxford.

Literature

M. Woodall, Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, London, 1939, no. 43.
J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, p. 153, no. 182.

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Lot Essay

The present detailed and highly worked drawing was executed in the mid 1750s and unusually for drawings dating from his later Ipswich period, Gainsborough has favoured a classical composition. J. Hayes, loc.cit. states that the pencil work in the cross-hatching in the sky and the treatment of the tree trunks, foliage and foreground is identical with a drawing listed as being in the possession of Edward Seago, J. Hayes, op.cit., p. 153, no. 180 and also op.cit., p. 148, no. 158.

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