Landscape with Cattle by a Cottage, late 1770s

Not on View

Medium

black and white chalk over softground etching on gray prepared laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 20.8 x 27.3 cm (8 3/16 x 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift (Partial and Promised) of Mimi and Sanford Feld

Accession Number

2005.143.4

Artists / Makers

Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, by William Esdaile: Bought by me at a private sale / at Miss Gainsboro's 1799 P45 N63x/WE

Provenance

Collection of the artist; Miss Gainsborough, by inheritance; William Esdaile, London, 1799(Lugt 2617). (Davis and Langdale Company, Inc., New York); Mr. and Mrs. Sanford I Feld, New Jersey; partial gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Feld, Sanford Mr.

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 75.