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Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury 1727-1788 London) Figures by a cart in a wooded landscape image 1

Lot 209

Thomas Gainsborough
(Sudbury 1727-1788 London)
Figures by a cart in a wooded landscape

Old Master Paintings

6 April 2017, 10:30 BST

London, Knightsbridge

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Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury 1727-1788 London)

Figures by a cart in a wooded landscape
inscribed and dated 'Jan: 23.d 1769/ A present from Mr. Gainsborough to/his friend Col St. Paul/ much valued' (on paper laid down on the back of the board on verso)
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on varnished paper laid down on panel
17.4 x 23.7cm (6 7/8 x 9 5/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Presented by the artist to Colonel Saint Paul
With Gerald Norman, 1965
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1966, lot 250 (bt. Fielding and Morley-Fletcher)
With The Fine Art Society, 1967
Walter Brandt, Ashdon, before 1970

Exhibited
Ickworth, English Water-Colours of the Great Period from a Private Collection, May-June 1968, no. 31

Literature
J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, vol. I, pp. 38, 68, 178, cat. no. 301, vol. II, p. 365, pl. 365
J. Hayes, 'William Jackson of Exeter', The Connoisseur, January 1970, p. 20

The present work was executed before January 1769, the date inscribed on the reverse, which Hayes interprets as the date the drawing was given to Colonel Saint Paul.

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