Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Grey and grey-black washes and black and white chalk on pink washed laid paper
  • 11 × 14 ½ inches · 281 × 369 mm
  • Drawn c.1780

Collections

  • George Richard Savage Nassau (1756–1823);
  • Nassau sale, Evans, 22 March 1824, (2nd day), lot 351 (with two others in one frame), bt. Lord Gower;
  • George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Lord Gower, later 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861);
  • George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1828-1892);
  • Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland (1851-1913);
  • George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888-1963);
  • Elizabeth Sunderland, 24th Countess of Sutherland (1921-2019);
  • Sutherland sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 27th January 2021, lot. 85;
  • Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd acquired from the above.

Literature

  • John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1972, p. 231, cat. no.527

Private collection, USA