Black chalk and stumping, with touches of white and red chalk, gray and brown wash, heightened with gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Collector's mark: Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Lugt 2420a)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4697
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
family | father | baby | children | mother | trees | woods | figures | landscape | landscape | genre subject | pond | resting | branches
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (National Gallery of Art, 1983-10-02 - 1983-12-04)Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (Kimbell Art Museum, 1983-12-17 - 1984-02-19)Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Musée du Louvre, 1981-02-07 - 1981-04-26)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Arts Council of Great Britain, Gainsborough drawings, London, 1960, p. 23, no. 59, pl. VI, NJ18 .G16 H38 (LC) (YCBA)John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 27, no. 36, NC228 B37+ (YCBA)Ann Bermingham, Sensation & sensibility : viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2005, p. 112, no. 80, NJ18 .G16 S45 2005 + Oversize (YCBA)Gainsborough, 1727-1788, Grand Palais, 6 fâevrier-27 avril 1981. , Editions Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1981, p. 201, no. 113, NJ18 G16 H393 (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Gainsborough drawings, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 192-94, no. 88, NJ18 G16 H392 (YCBA)John T. Hayes, The drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven London, 1971, vol. 1, p. 293; vol 2, p. 364, no. 803, pl. 349, NJ18 G16 H39 + (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Thomas Gainsborough, Tate Publishing, [S.l., 1980, pp. 71-2, no. 49, NJ18 G16 H48 (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 23, no. 36, pl. LXVII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 63-4, no. 49, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Mary Woodall, Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, 1939, p. 120, no. 208, NJ18 G16 W665 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)