1994.3: Landscape with Cottage alongside a Road
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1994.3
- People
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Thomas Gainsborough, British (Sudbury, England 1727 - 1788 London, England)
- Title
- Landscape with Cottage alongside a Road
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1757
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/293560
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and white chalk on pale green antique laid paper discolored to tan
- Dimensions
- 15 x 20.1 cm (5 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Possibly the artist's posthumous sale, Christie's, London, May 11, 1799, lot 82, 84, or 88 (to Hibbert); George Hibbert (1757-1837), Munden House, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; by descent to the Hon. A. H. Holland-Hibbert (1855-1935), Broadclyst House, near Exeter, Devon; his sale, Christie's, London, June 30, 1913, lot 27 (with Hayes 1970, no. 193, to Agnew's); Agnew's, London; Priscilla S. England; gift to Fogg
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Albert and Priscilla S. England in honor of Agnes Mongan
- Accession Year
- 1994
- Object Number
- 1994.3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Hugh Belsey, "A Second Supplement to John Hayes's 'The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough'", Master Drawings (Winter 2008), vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 427-541, cat. no. 1033, fig. 58, also p. 447
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