Study of Mallows

mid- to late 1750s

Medium	graphite with stumping on white laid paper, with gum fixative
Dimensions	Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (19.3 x 15.5 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.65
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Study of Mallows, mid- to late 1750s, graphite with stumping on white laid paper, with gum fixative. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.65

Select Bibliography

. Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough. Nottingham, Nottingham University Art Gallery, November 1-25, 1962. 1962. . Flowers and the Artist. Harrogate Festival, August 1967. Parris, Leslie. Landscape in Britain c.1750 - 1850. Tate Gallery, London; November 21, 1973-February 3, 1974. London: Tate Publishing. 1973. . Flowers in Art from East and West. May-September 1979. London: British Museum. 1979. Hayes, John. Thomas Gainsborough. Tate Gallery, London, October 7, 1980-January 4, 1981. London: Tate Publishing;. 1980. Gainsborough's Family. Exh. cat. 12 March to 24 April 1988. Sudbury, England: Gainsborough's House. 1988. Hayes, John. Gainsborough and Rowlandson: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published privately, 1998. . Gainsborough 1727-1788. Grand Palais, Paris, February 6-April 27, 1981. Paris: Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux. 1981. Spink & Son. British Watercolours and Drawings. May 28-June 21, 1996. London: Spink & Son. 1996. 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. Woodall, Mary. Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings. 1939. 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. . The Painter's Eye. June 1977. Gainsborough's House. 1977. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Charles Fairfax Murray; Henry S. Reitlinger (his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 Jan. 1954, no. 147, sold to Squire Gallery); [Squire Gallery, sold to Torbock by 1962]; H. Cornish Torbock (by 1962–1994, his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 14 Apr. 1994, no. 63, sold to Spink); [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1994–1995, sold to Manton, Sept. 1995]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1995–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.