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A black and white chalk drawing of a landscape with two figures riding up a hill round a rocky outcrop.

A drawing in black chalk with white chalk highlights of a country landscape. On the left there are two figures riding, with a third horse in front, up a hill and round a rocky outcrop. There are trees on the hill, and to the right, part of a house can be seen. On the left of the drawing there is a distant mountain lit on one side by the sun. A large and dramatic cloud fills the distant sky.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.177
People
Thomas Gainsborough, British (Sudbury, England 1727 - 1788 London, England)
Title
Wooded Upland Landscape with Mounted Figures and Cottage
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296738

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and watercolor, heightened with lead white applied dry and dipped in skim milk, varnished, on antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.1 x 26.7 cm (8 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.177
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 1971), cat. no. 360
  • Jonathan Derow, "Thomas Gainsborough's Varnished Watercolor Technique and It's Place in the History of English Landscape Watercolor Painting" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, March 1988), Unpublished, pp. 1-124 passim
  • Important British Pictures, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, June 9, 1998), under no. 4

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