Live Auction 6106Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 793

After Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)

A shepherd with his flock in an extensive landscape

Closed29 May 2012

Estimate

GBP 1,000–1,500

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After Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
A shepherd with his flock in an extensive landscape
black chalk heightened with white, on buff paper
10 x 13½ in. (25.4 x 34.3 cm.); and An unframed drawing of sailing craft on an estuary from the circle of Thomas Gainsborough (2)

with Agnew's, London, 2001, no. 6.

Specialist note

The present drawing appears to be a copy of a drawing now at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia. Gainsborough explored variations of the same compositions particularly during the 1780s.