Study of Trees

Study of Trees

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Reference

2815

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
Study of Trees

Inscribed upper left: No 19
Black chalk on laid paper
20 by 14.7 cm., 7 3/4 by 5 3/4 in.

Provenance:
Private collection, UK

Literature:
Hugh Belsey, `A Second Supplement to John Hayes's `The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough' ', Master Drawings vol. XLVI, 2008, no.1025, ill.

Hugh Belsey compares this to tree studies at Stanford University (op.cit., no.107) and another with Agnew's in 2003 (see John Hayes, Gainsborough Drawings - A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonne, Master Drawings, vol. XXI, 1983, pp.367-9).