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Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
Lot 162

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)

Study of a donkey laden with panniers and accompanying figure

Closed2 December 2014

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Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727-1788 London)
Study of a donkey laden with panniers and accompanying figure
stamped 'T Gainsborough' (lower centre) and stamped 'T Gainsborough' and 'Gainsborough' (upper centre, both overmounted) and indistinctly inscribed 'Very....' (along the lower edge)
pencil, fragmentary watermark
5 ¾ x 7 3/8 in. (14.6 x 18.8 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 March 1974, lot 49 (130 gns to Hope).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, 5 November 1974, lot 40 (55 gns to Boyce).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1976, lot 193.

Specialist note

For further information about the first of these artist's stamps, see Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, 1970, vol. I, pp. 25-6. The present drawing would have been drawn from life, Hayes relates the technique to Peasant on Horseback (British Museum), op. cit., no. 819, pl. 36 and dates it to the early to mid 1750s.