Thomas Gainsborough
English, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Rocks Overhanging a Pool
mid-1780s
| Medium | black chalk and lead white with stumping on beige laid paper, fixed with skim milk (?) |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 10 7/16 x 12 7/8 in. (26.5 x 32.7 cm) |
| Object Number | 2007.8.74 |
| 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 Overhanging a Pool, mid-1780s, black chalk and lead white with stumping on beige laid paper, fixed with skim milk (?). Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.74
Select Bibliography
Spink & Son. English Watercolour Drawings. April-May 1979. London: Spink & Son, Ltd. 1979.
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
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 15 Apr. 1953, no. 6, sold to Colnaghi; [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, in 1953, sold to Blaiberg]; Edgar J. Blaiberg, sale, Christie’s, London, 20 June 1978, no. 29, sold to Spink; [Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1978–1979, no. K3 6647, sold to Manton, May 1979]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1979–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.
