Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Black chalk and stump and pale pink wash
  • 10 ¾ × 14 ⅝ inches · 273 × 371 mm
  • c.1780

Collections

  • Probably John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick (1769-1859);
  • George Rushout, 3rd Baron Northwick (1811-1887), son of the above;
  • Elizabeth Augusta Bateman-Hanbury, wife of the above;
  • Capt Edward G Spencer-Churchill; grandson of the above; 
  • Northwick sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1921, lot 126 (bt. Sims);
  • Percy Moore Turner, London;
  • Stanley Kennedy North 1887 - 1942;
  • Selwyn College, Cambridge;
  • Christie’s, London, 8 December 2020, lot.5;
  • Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd. 

Exhibitions

  • Oxford, Oxford Arts Club, Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, June - July 1935, no. 11.

Literature

  • J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, p. 260, no. 658.

Private collection, USA