Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005747Wooded Landscape with Stream
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink (possibly in the hand of William Esdaile): "Gainsboroug"
Provenance
Sold by Stephen Somerville, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime: Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11, 1998–Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 33. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 70-71, cat. 41 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
John Hayes, “Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné,” Master Drawings 21:4 (Winter 1983), p. 383, cat. 914. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 70-71, cat. 41 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough / English, 1727-1788
- Date
- 1750–59
- Medium
- Brush and black ink and gray wash, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, pieced along both vertical edges and laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.8 × 33.4 cm (9 3/8 × 13 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- brush and ink
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.943
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