Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Study of a Cottage and Trees [recto]

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
Study of a Cottage and Trees [recto]
Pencil on grey-green laid paper without watermark, 175 x 175mm (6 7/8 x 6 7/8in), on one page of a double sheet from a sketchbook, the total sheet 175 x 380mm (6 7/8 x 15in) (unframed)

Provenance:
The Artist's Sale, Christie's London, 11th May 1799, in lot 82, 84, or 88 (sketchbooks bought by George Hibbert);
The Hon. A. H. Holland Hibbert, by descent;
Sale. Christie's London, 30th June 1913, in lot 50 (to Rimell, for two);
Sir Robert Witt, London (no. 248);

Sale. Sotheby's London, 10th July 1984, lot 59;
Private collection, London

Literature:

Woodall, M., Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, 1939, no. 358 (recto and verso)

Hayes, J. The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, 1970, no. 559 (recto)

⁂ Dateable to the early 1780s.