Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005679Phineas Borret's Farm near Saffron Walden
Provenance
The artist to Sir John Ramsden [invoice]; by descent to Mrs. Gordon-Duff-Pennington, Muncaster Castle, 1995 [invoice]. Sold by Leger Galleries, London, to the Art Institute, 1995.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection, Thomas Gainsborough and Eighteenth-century Portraits of the Common Man," 20 February-28 April 1995. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art," May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 10.
Publications
"Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,' The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 62-63 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 12. Greg Smith, Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour (London, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Girtin / English, 1775-1802
- Date
- 1802
- Medium
- Watercolor with touches of graphite, on off-white wove paper, laid down on light brown board
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32.2 × 52.7 cm (12 11/16 × 20 3/4 in.); Mount: 45.1 × 65.5 cm (17 13/16 × 25 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1995.216
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