Collections

• The artist’s posthumous sale, London, Christie’s 11 May 1799, lot 82, 84 or 88 (to Hibbert);
• George Hibbert (1757-1837), Munden House, Hertfordshire, by descent;
• Hon. A H. Holland Hibbert (1855-1935);
• Holland-Hibbert sale, Christie’s, 30 June 1913, probably lot 32 - Tree Studies - a pair 7 x 5 1/4 inches, (bt Leggatt £3.3s); 
• H.W. Underdown;
• John Manning, Manning Galleries, (as Constable);
• A. C. Greg, Acton Bridge, acquired from the above;
• Sotheby’s, 24 September 1987, lot 65;
• With Richard Ivor;
• John Bull;
• John Bull sale, Sotheby’s, 16 July 1992, lot 110;
• Private collection, acquired from the above, to 2018

Literature

• John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, vol. I, pp. 3,152, cat. no. 173;
• Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable and his Drawings, London, 1990, pp.54-55, fig. 50.