Lot Essay
We are grateful to Hugh Belsey for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.
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THE ROSS COLLECTION FROM KNOCKMORE, ENNISKERRY, WICKLOW (lots 157-193)
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
Cattle watering beside a river with a distant view to a tower
Details
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
Cattle watering beside a river with a distant view to a tower
black and white chalk on grey paper
11 x 13 ¾ in. (27.9 x 35 cm.)
Cattle watering beside a river with a distant view to a tower
black and white chalk on grey paper
11 x 13 ¾ in. (27.9 x 35 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 May 1962, lot 23 (£220 to Leggatt).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 April 1997, lot 29, where purchased for the present collection.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 April 1997, lot 29, where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
H. Belsey ‘A Second Supplement to John Hayes’s The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough’, Master Drawings, 46, 2008, no. 1105.
Exhibited
Bury St Edmund's Art Gallery, 1972.
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