Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
Landscape with a road winding past extensive farm buildings
Signed with initials TG (to mount)
Pen and grey ink, and stump
23 x 26.7cm; 9 x 10½in

Provenance:
Benjamin West PRA (1738-1820) (L.419);
Howard Bliss (1894 - 1977);
By whom given to John Marshall;
And by descent to the present private collector, Wiltshire

Literature:
John Hayes, 'Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné' in Master Drawings (vol.21, no.4, Winter 1983), pp.384-385 no.930

The present work dates to the mid to late 1770s.