Wooded Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep, Winding River and Tower

mid- to late 1770s

Medium	black and white chalks on brown laid paper
Dimensions	7 3/16 x 8 9/16 in. (18.2 x 21.8 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.70
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 Shepherd and Sheep, Winding River and Tower, mid- to late 1770s, black and white chalks on brown laid paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.70

Select Bibliography

Leicester Galleries. From Gainsborough to Hitchens: Paintings and Drawings from the Howard Bliss Collection. January 1950. London: Leicester Galleries. 1950. 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. 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

The artist, probably given to Gardiner; Susannah Gardiner, the artist’s sister; Miss R.H. Green, by descent, sale, Christie’s, 1 Apr. 1949, no. 36, sold to Colnaghi; [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, sold to Bliss]; J. Howard Bliss (in 1949, sold to The Leicester Galleries, 1949); [The Leicester Galleries, London, 1949–1950, sold to Lewsen]; Dr. Sidney Charles Lewsen (1950–1995), sale, Sotheby’s, London, 12 Apr. 1995, no. 50; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 Apr. 1997, no. 25, sold to Ackermann & Johnson, as agent for Manton; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1997–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.