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Thomas Gainsborough

Woods Near a Village with Rabbit Catchers and Their Greyhounds, late 1750s

Not on View

Medium

graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 26.1 x 36.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Iola S. Haverstick in memory of her father, Eugene W. Stetson, and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.152.1

Artists / Makers

Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

Henry S. Reitlinger

Provenance

John Deffett Francis (Lugt 1445)

Associated Names

Haverstick, Iola S. Mrs.

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).

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