FDA-D.258-2010
Parts
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
width (actual size): 326mm
Materials & techniques note
Pencil, black chalk and grey wash heightened with white, with scratching out
Production
Person
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
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)
• 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)
