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attributed to Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British, Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains, 1742
- Title:
Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains
- Date:
- 1742
- Medium:
- Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/2 x 15 inches (29.2 x 38.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark: Amsterdam
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.4711
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- church | donkey | genre subject | graveyard | hill | landscape | man | mountain | peasant | ruins | sheep | tombstone | trees
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9650
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English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, pp. 270, 272, fig. 5, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 270, 272, fig. 5, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
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