Woods Near a Village with Rabbit Catchers and Their Greyhounds
late 1750s
Artist, British, 1727 - 1788
Thomas Gainsborough
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 26.1 x 36.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
1991.152.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hayes 1983, no. 911, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Deffett Francis (Lugt 1445)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 31.
2002
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788, Tate Britain, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002-2003, (shown only in Washington).
Bibliography
1983
Hayes, John. "Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonne." Master Drawings, XXI, no. 4 (1983): 367-391.
1992
Leger, A Century of Art Dealing, 1892-1992. London, 1992, 74.
2003
Thomas Gainsborough, Themes and Variations-The Art of Landscape. Lowell Libson Ltd., London, at W. M. Brady & Co., New York, 2003: fig. 25 (image switched with fig. 27).
Markings
Henry S. Reitlinger
Wikidata ID
Q64633212