Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Wooded Landscape with Group of Figures

Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788

Wooded Landscape with Group of Figures

ca. 1745
7 7/16 x 5 3/4 inches (188 x 146 mm)
Graphite, on laid paper.
III, 52

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
On same mat as III, 49.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Pro Patria, upper part.
Associated names
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Bolzoni, Marco S. Thomas Gainsborough : Experiments in Drawings. New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, p. 78, no. 2, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 52, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department