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A watercolor of a man on horseback rounding the side of a small hill in the countryside.

A muted watercolor of a wooded country scene. On the left there is a hill, and on the right a river that has broken its banks and crossed a stony road that curves round the hill. A bowed figure, riding side saddle on a horse in the mid ground of the drawing, is rounding the side of the hill.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.472
People
Thomas Gainsborough, British (Sudbury, England 1727 - 1788 London, England)
Title
Wooded Landscape with Horseman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298105

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 25.2 x 34.9 cm (9 15/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.472
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), pp. 134-135, no. 94, repr. p. 135
  • John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 1971), cat. no. 259, pl. 83
  • Jonathan Derow, "Thomas Gainsborough's Varnished Watercolor Technique and It's Place in the History of English Landscape Watercolor Painting" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, March 1988), Unpublished, pp. 1-124 passim
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 42, p. 29
  • 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, p. 489

Exhibition History

  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/28/2022 - 07/11/2022

Verification Level

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