Lot Essay
For a note on the dating and treatment of the pencil work in this drawing see lot 63.
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Wooded landscape with figures, donkeys and buildings
Details
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
Wooded landscape with figures, donkeys and buildings
pencil, with fragmentary watermark 'PROPATRIA', unframed
6 1/8 x 7¾ in. (15.6 x 19.7 cm.)
Wooded landscape with figures, donkeys and buildings
pencil, with fragmentary watermark 'PROPATRIA', unframed
6 1/8 x 7¾ in. (15.6 x 19.7 cm.)
Provenance
Guy Bellingham Smith.
Lady Eason.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1964, lot 74, with another, (sold Bossuet).
with Savage, London.
Derek Melville, Yoxford.
Lady Eason.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1964, lot 74, with another, (sold Bossuet).
with Savage, London.
Derek Melville, Yoxford.
Literature
M. Woodall, Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, London, 1939, no. 44.
J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, p. 153, no. 183.
J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, p. 153, no. 183.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis
Sale room notice
Please note that this lot is sold framed.