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.

Coastal Scene with Shipping, Figures, and Cows

Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788

Coastal Scene with Shipping, Figures, and Cows

ca. 1780
11 1/ 4 x 14 9/16 inches (282 x 370 mm)
Black watercolor and white opaque watercolor over black chalk with smudging.
2017.89

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Strasbourg bend, fleur-de-lis above, indecipherable form below shield; cf. Churchill 433).
Associated names
Spencer, Earl, former owner.
Smith, Robert, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Bolzoni, Marco S. Thomas Gainsborough : Experiments in Drawings. New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, p. 13, fig. 3, repr. and p. 79, no. 11, repr.
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 142, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 26.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department