Wooded Landscape with Rocks, Stream, and Distant Hill

mid- to late 1770s

Medium	black and white chalks on blue laid paper, fixed with skim milk (?)
Dimensions	10 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (25.7 x 32.1 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.69
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Gainsborough, Wooded Landscape with Rocks, Stream, and Distant Hill, mid- to late 1770s, black and white chalks on blue laid paper, fixed with skim milk (?). Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.69

Select Bibliography

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. John Hayes.. Catalogue Raisonné of Gainsborough's Drawings.. London: Zwemmer.. 1971..

Provenance

H. C. Laurence; [Squire Gallery]; Norman Baker (in 1951); [Oscar & Peter Johnson, Ltd., London, sold to Manton, Sept. 1964]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1964–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.