Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)

A path around a knoll, cottages beyond

细节
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
A path around a knoll, cottages beyond
pencil and white chalk
7 1/8 x 8¼ in. (18.1 x 21 cm.)
来源
The artist's daughter, Margaret Gainsborough; Christie's, London, 11 May 1799, part of lot 82, 84 or 88, each bought by
George Hibbert, and thence by descent to
The Hon. A.H. Holland-Hibbert; Christie's, London, 30 June 1913, probably lot 23 (8 gns to Mrs Garland).
H.W. Underdown; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1926, lot unidentified.
Sir Robert Witt, a gift to T.C.C., 1947.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 June 1982, lot 31.
出版
J. Hayes, 'Gainsborough's Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné', Master Drawings, XXI, no. 4 (1983), no. 592.
刻印
By W.F. Wells, 1803.

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The present drawing was once in a sketchbook. Several of such sketchbooks appeared as lots 81-84 and 86-88 in a Christie's sale of 11 May 1799, consigned by Margaret Gainsborough, the artist's daughter, following the death of her mother in 1798. One sketchbook (lot 85) was subsequently bequeathed to the British Museum by Richard Payne Knight. Three were purchased by George Hibbert and later appeared in the Mrs A.H. Holland-Hibbert sale at Christie's 1913 (see above); three other sketch books were bought by a Mr Pugh and one by Colnaghi. The present sheet is the same size as several of the Hibbert drawings and is almost certainly a page from one of the sketchbooks originally sold as lot 82, 84 or 88 in 1799. For comparable drawings from the Hibbert sketch books, datable to the early 1780s, see J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, pp. 234-38, nos. 545-62, pls. 175-6.