Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Property from the Estate of The Rt Hon the Countess of Sutherland
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.
Wooded Landscape with Cattle and Sheep at a Watering Place, and Rustic lovers
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January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of The Rt Hon the Countess of Sutherland
Thomas Gainsborough R.A.
Sudbury 1727 - 1788 London
Wooded Landscape with Cattle and Sheep at a Watering Place, and Rustic lovers
Gray and gray-black washes and black and white chalk on laid paper
281 by 369 mm; 11 by 14 1/2 in
George Richard Savage Nassau (1756–1823);
his executor’s sale, Evans, 22 March 1824, (2nd day), lot 351 (with two others in one frame), bt. Lord Gower;
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Lord Gower, later 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861),
thence by descent to the present owner
his executor’s sale, Evans, 22 March 1824, (2nd day), lot 351 (with two others in one frame), bt. Lord Gower;
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Lord Gower, later 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861),
thence by descent to the present owner
J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1972, p. 231, cat. no. 527