- Title:
- Wooded Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep
- Former Title(s):
- Shepherd and his Flock on a Wooded Path
- Date:
- between 1765 and 1770
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and brown ink with black and gray wash, heavily varnished on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid down on laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (17.5 x 23.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "Gainsborough (underlined) G"
Collector's mark: John Deffett Francis (Lugt 1447)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1199
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- flock | foliage | grass | landscape | path | rocks (landforms) | sheep | shepherd | trees
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9631
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Thomas Gainsborough Drawings (Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., 1987-05-01 - 1987-06-12) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (Kimbell Art Museum, 1983-12-17 - 1984-02-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (National Gallery of Art, 1983-10-02 - 1983-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John T. Hayes, Gainsborough drawings, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 114-15, no. 47, NJ18 G16 H392 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 62, no. 62, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Andrew Wilton, The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 11, 55-6, no. 153, pl. 12, NJ18 C83 W55 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]