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Three horses stand beside a wooded area, a farm cart and a body of water in this gouache drawing.

A drawing in grey and white gouache of a country scene. In the foreground is a body of water, and behind it three horses stand close together under the shade of some large trees. To the left of the horses, and close by them, is a wooden farm cart with large wheels resting on its back edge.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.708
People
Thomas Gainsborough, British (Sudbury, England 1727 - 1788 London, England)
Title
A Market Cart with Horses by a Stream
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
early 1780s
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297673

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash and white gouache, with traces of black chalk, on buff antique laid paper
Dimensions
sight: 26.7 x 34.7 cm (10 1/2 x 13 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.708
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. 521, pl. 165, under cat. no. 522
  • 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Painting" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, March 1988), Unpublished, pp. 1-124 passim
  • Susan Sloman, Gainsborough's Landscapes: Themes and Variations, exh. cat., Philip Wilson (London, England, 2011), p. 42, repr. p. 45 as fig. 12
  • Lowell Libson Ltd 2011, auct. cat., Lowell Libson Ltd (London, 2011), p. 24, ill.
  • Gainsborough and the Landscape of Refinement, auct. cat., Lowell Libson Ltd (London, 2014), repr. p. 40

Exhibition History

  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/28/2022 - 07/11/2022

Verification Level

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