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FDA-D.258-2010

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Object number

FDA-D.258-2010

Object type

Identification

Title

Rocky Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep, and Cows and Goat at a Pool

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

A similar drawing, titled 'A Woodland Pool with Rocks and Plants' (c.1765-70) is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art.

Other number

Pi 248

Description

Dimensions

height (actual size): 251mm
width (actual size): 326mm

Materials & techniques note

Pencil, black chalk and grey wash heightened with white, with scratching out

Production

Date

c. 1785

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Collection of Alan Pilkington; by whom presented/bequeathed to Eton College

Previous ownership

Pilkington, Alan, 1879 - 1973: With Colnaghi, 1952; from whom purchased by Alan Pilkington 1952. Bequeathed to Eton by Alan Pilkington, 1973
Broughton, Thomas Partridge: Thomas Partridge Broughton collector's stamp (on the reverse)
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir), 1872 - 1952

References

• Ryan, H., Hidden Treasures, W.S. Fine Art exhibition catalogue, 2010 (p. 18-19, no. 4)
• Hayes, J., The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970 (p. 280, no. 751)
• Herrmann, L., A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours in memory of the late D.C.T. Baskett, 30th July to 23 August 1963, P&D Colnaghi & Co, London, 1963 (no. 18)
• Hayes, J., Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1962 (no. 55)
• Pilkington, A., Loan exhibition of early English watercolours, drawings by Old Masters, etchings & engravings from the collection of Alan D. Pilkington: in aid of the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association, Colnaghi & Co, London, 1958 (no. 47)
• Woodall, M., Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, London, 1939 (p. 133, no. 362)
• Heil, W., Loan exhibition of English Painting of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries June 6th to July 9th, 1933, San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1933 (no. 77)
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