Drover with Calves in a Country Cart, c. 1755

Not on View

Medium

graphite with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 24.1 x 29.2 cm (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Howard Sturges

Catalogue Raisonné

Hayes 1970, no. 152

Accession Number

1956.9.25

Artists / Makers

Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788

Image Use

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Provenance

Probably a gift of the artist to Goodenough Earle, Barton Grange, Somerset; by descent to Francis Wheat Newton; sold 1913 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); sold that same year to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 1914 to C.R. Williams. Howard Sturges [d. 1955]; gift 1956 to NGA.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Knoedler & Company, M.
Sturges, Howard

Exhibition History

1987: English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.

2002: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788, Tate Britain, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002-2003, no. 10, repro. (shown only in Washington and Boston).

Bibliography

1970: Hayes, John. The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough. 2 vols. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970 and 1971:152

1983: Hayes/Stainton 1983, 12.