Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Thinned oil paint and watercolour with white lead on paper prepared with a red ground, varnished
  • 15 ¾ × 20 ¼ inches · 400 × 514 mm
  • Painted early 1770s

Collections

  • Private collection, 1980;
  • Phillips, 11th November 1980, lot 61;
  • Private collection, London, acquired at the above sale, to 1998;
  • Private collection, USA, 2014.  

Exhibitions

  • London, Anthony Dallas & Son Ltd, 1983, no.1 (on loan);
  • London, Spink-Leger, Master Drawings 17th to 20th Century, 1998, no. 15.

Literature

  • John Hayes, ‘Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné’, Master Drawings, vol. XXI, no. 4, 1983, no. 924;
  • Hugh Belsey, ‘A Second Supplement to John Hayes’s The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough’, Master Drawings, vol. XLVI, no. 4, 2008, no.924.

Private collection, UK