Landscape with a View over a Distant Plain

c. 1775

Medium	brush and brown ink and oil on buff paper, varnished
Dimensions	Overall: 8 1/2 x 12 1/16 in. (21.6 x 30.7 cm)
Object Number	1955.1837
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Landscape with a View over a Distant Plain, c. 1775, brush and brown ink and oil on buff paper, varnished. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1837

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966. J. P. Heseltine.. Reproductions of Original Drawings in Colours from the Collection of J. P. H.. Bushey, Harts.: André & Sleigh.. 1903.. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.

Provenance

Richard Ford, London; William Esdaile, London (L. 2617; see inscription);* J. P. Heseltine, London (L. 1507); Knoedler, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1913). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.