Private collection, USA
A cow and a sheep in a clearing
- Black chalk heightened with white chalk on buff paper
- 9 ½ × 13 ⅝ inches · 241 × 346 mm
- Drawn in the late 1770s
Collections
- Sir Arthur Kay, 1930;
- Kay sale, Christie's, 23 May 1930, lot 37 (22 gns. to Meatyard);
- Sir Michael Sadler, d.1943;
- Leicester Galleries;
- Sir Kenneth (later Lord) Clark, d.1983;
- The Hon Mrs Alan Clark, daughter-in-law of the above, by gift;
- The Saltwood Heritage Foundation, sale Christie's, 25 April 1995, lot 4;
- Miss Dorothy Scharf, acquired from the above;
- Lowell Libson Ltd, acquired from the above;
- Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 2009, to 2017
Exhibitions
- York, Bristol, Liverpool etc., Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition, Gainsborough’s Drawings, 1960-61, no. 73;
- London, Lowell Libson Ltd, British Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, 2009.
Literature
- Mary Woodhall, Gainsborough’s Landscape Drawings, 1939, p.126 cat no.284;
- John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, 2 vols, 1970, vol. I, p. 313, cat. no. 875, reproduced, vol. II, plate 144;
- Hugh Belsey, “Communing with nature: Gainsborough and cows, British Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, exhibition catalogue (Lowell Libson Ltd), 2009, pp.31-32.
