Landscape with a Clump of Trees on a Hillock

early 1760s

Medium	watercolor and graphite, with coating, on beige laid paper
Dimensions	10 1/4 x 14 3/16 in. (26.1 x 36 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.66
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Landscape with a Clump of Trees on a Hillock, early 1760s, watercolor and graphite, with coating, on beige laid paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.66

Select Bibliography

. . Uppingham School Magazine. 12/1920. 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. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Alfred de Pass, given to Uppingham School, 1920; Uppingham School (in 1920); [Oscar & Peter Johnson, Ltd., London, sold to Manton, Apr. 1980]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1980–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.