Landscape with a View from a Road of a Cottage and Fence

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1994.2
People: Thomas Gainsborough, British (Sudbury, England 1727 - 1788 London, England)
Title: Landscape with a View from a Road of a Cottage and Fence
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1757
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/294169

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black and white chalk on pale green antique laid paper paper discolored to tan
Dimensions: 14.9 x 19.9 cm (5 7/8 x 7 13/16 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, unidentified lot; Herrmann estate; his daughter, 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: 1994.2
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 1032, fig. 57, under cat. no. 1031, also p. 447

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