Extensive Wooded Landscape with a Bridge over a Gorge, Distant Village and Hills

c. 1786

Medium	black and white chalks with stumping on beige laid paper, fixed with skim milk and/or gum
Dimensions	Sheet: 10 3/16 x 13 11/16 in. (25.9 x 34.8 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.75
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Extensive Wooded Landscape with a Bridge over a Gorge, Distant Village and Hills, c. 1786, black and white chalks with stumping on beige laid paper, fixed with skim milk and/or gum. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.75

Select Bibliography

. Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough. Aldeburgh Festival, June 1949. 1949. Leicester Galleries. From Gainsborough to Hitchens: Paintings and Drawings from the Howard Bliss Collection. January 1950. London: Leicester Galleries. 1950. Spink & Son. English Watercolour Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. London: Spink & Son, 1985. "An English Genius Views England: Gainsborough as a Landscape Artist." Illustrated London News no. 5778 (14 January 1950). Hayes, John. The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. 2 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1982. Hayes, John. Gainsborough and Rowlandson: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published privately, 1998. 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. Rosenthal, Michael and Martin Myrone, eds. Thomas Gainsborough 1727-1788. Tate Britain, London, October 24, 2002-January 19, 2003; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, February 8-May 11, 2003; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 15-September 14, 2003. London: Tate Publishing. 2002. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Dr. Dibdin; L. W. Neeld (his sale, Christie’s, London, 13 July 1945, no. 106, sold to Agnew’s); [Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, 1945–1949, sold to Bliss]; J. Howard Bliss (in 1949); [The Leicester Galleries, London, in 1949, sold to Spink]; [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, sold to Walton]; Sir William Walton; Lady Walton, his widow, sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, 12 July 1984, no. 82, sold to Spink; [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1984–1986, sold to Manton, Jan. 1986]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1986–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.