Collections

• ‘The European Museum’, 1798; 
• Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736–1803), acquired from the above for the Bridgewater Gallery in 1798;
• George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758–1833), nephew of the above, by descent;
• Francis Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857), second son of the above;
• John Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere and 6th Duke of Sutherland (1915–2000), by descent;
• The Trustees of The Ellesmere 1939 Settlement, sale Christie's, 18 June 1976, lot 119;
• Richard Green, London acquired from the above;
• Private collection, Switzerland to 2018;
• Sotheby’s, London, 6th December 2018, lot 209;
• Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd to 2019

Exhibitions

• The European Museum, 1798;
• London, British Institution, 1841, no. 103.

Literature

• Morning Post, 22 March 1798;
• W.Y. Ottley, Engravings of the most noble Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures, London 1818, vol. III, p. 142, no. 5, reproduced from an engraving;
• J.P. Neale, View of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, vol. IV, London 1821, unpaginated (recorded hanging in the New Alcove Room at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire);
• J. Young, A Catalogue of the Pictures, of the most noble the Marquess of Stafford, at Cleveland House, London 1825, vol. II, p. 184, no. 257, reproduced in etching;
• Mrs Jameson, Companion to the most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, London 1844, p.161;
• G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols, London 1854, vol. II, p. 53 (listed among the collection at Bridgewater House);
• G.W. Fulcher, Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., London 1856, p. 207;
• W. Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English Art, London 1898, p. 205;
• W. Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English Art, London 1904, p. 286;
• E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, cat. no. 983;
• J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, 2 vols, London 1982, vol. II, pp. 557–58, cat. no. 175, reproduced p. 558.