Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, on contemporary mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and dark brown ink, verso, center: "Presented by Mr ["r" in superscript] Gainsborough to Doctor C[h]a[rl]ton at Bath | & purchased at the Doctors sale."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, James W. and Mary C. Fosburgh Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1998.14.1
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
fishermen | dog (animal) | river | figures | ruins | landscape | trees | bridge (built work) | horse (animal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Gainsborough, 1727-1788, Grand Palais, 6 fâevrier-27 avril 1981. , Editions Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1981, p. 186, no. 87, NJ18 G16 H393 (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Gainsborough drawings, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 76-77, no. 28, NJ18 G16 H392 (YCBA)John T. Hayes, The drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven London, 1971, vol. 1, p. 170; vol. 2, p. 357, no. 264, pl. 84, NJ18 G16 H39 + (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Thomas Gainsborough, Tate Publishing, [S.l., 1980, p. 54, no. 15, NJ18 G16 H48 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 62, 64, no. 47, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Paintings , drawings and sculpture collected by Yale alumni : an exhibition , May 19 - June 26, 1960, , New Haven, c. 1960, p. 168, no. 172, J418 N45F 1960 (LSF) See ORBIS for call numbers of additional copies available at LSF