Rocky Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle along a Valley and Distant Mountains

c. 1783

Medium	brush and gray wash on beige laid paper
Dimensions	Sheet: 8 5/16 x 12 1/8 in. (21.1 x 30.8 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.72
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Rocky Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle along a Valley and Distant Mountains, c. 1783, brush and gray wash on beige laid paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.72

Select Bibliography

Spink & Son. English Watercolour Drawings. April-May, 1984. London: Spink & Son. 1984. Hayes, John. "Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonne." Master Drawings. 21.4 (Winter 1983). 1983. Hayes, John. Gainsborough and Rowlandson: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published privately, 1998. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Mary Ann Revett; Miss Joan Revett Higginson, her great-granddaughter, by descent, sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, 17 Nov. 1983, no. 92, sold to Spink; [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1983–1984, sold to Manton, Apr. 1984]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1984–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.