Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British

Title:

An Imaginary Wooded Village with Drovers and Cattle

Date:

between 1771 and 1772

Materials & Techniques:

Oil and mixed media on paper on canvas

Dimensions:

24 1/2 x 29 3/8 inches (62.2 x 74.6 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1981.25.297

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)

Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)

Publications:

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 98-99, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 32-33, fig. 28, ND467 C67 (YCBA)

Gainsborough and the landscape of refinement, Lowell Libson Ltd., London, 2014, p. 32, NJ18.G16 G3 2014

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 54 (v.1), no. 35, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Ellis Waterhouse, Gainsborough, Spring Books, London, 1966, NJ18 G16 A12 W28 1966 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:792