The Ingram Collection - Drawings from the Collection of the late Michael Ingram

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Lot 146
  • 146

Thomas Gainsborough R.A. 1727 - 1788

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Description

  • Thomas Gainsborough R.A.
  • Study of Horses, Cows, a Donkey and a pig
  • pencil on laid paper, watermarked

Provenance

Mrs. G. Blois;
purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1957

 

Exhibited

Stroud, Stroud Festival Silver Jubilee Exhibition, 1971

Literature

John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainborough, 1970, no. 858, p. 309, pl.55  

Catalogue Note

These loose and free drawings of farm animals were drawn by Gainsborough from life in the mid 1750s.  John Hayes suggests that the pencilwork and scallops outlining the foliage are related to the artist's pencil study of trees in the British Museum (see John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, 1970, no.169)