Gainsborough (Thomas, 1727-1788), Landscape with a Hermit

Circle of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Landscape with a Hermit, pencil and brown wash on 18th century laid paper, sheet size 320 x 237mm (123/5 x 93/8 ins), cream card window mount

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Provenance: C. R. Rudolf Collection, with pencil annotations by C. Rudolf to mount, '?Cotman, Mullaly. I still adhere to the view that the drawing is by Gainsborough. C R.' and 'c. f. plate 396 John Hayes, The Drawings of Gainsborough for a landscape by Thomas Barker 1769-1847'.

Carl Robert Rudolf (circa 1884-1974), dental surgeon and collector of Old Master drawings. A large number of Italian, French and Spanish drawings from his collection were sold by Sotheby's, London in 1977.