About the Artwork
Coastal Scene with Figures and Shipping
18th century
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English
English
Gray wash over black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 14 1/2 inches (27.8 × 36.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
34.112
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: An original of Gainsborough Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, verso: E. 2574 [in circle]
Watermark: [indecipherable]
Provenance
(E. Parsons and Sons, London, England)
[as Coast Scene by Thomas Gainsborough] 1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hayes, John. The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough. New Haven, 1970, 1: pp. 38, 44, 221, no. 486; 2: (pl. 152).
Hayes, John. "Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné." Master drawings 21, 4 (Winter 1983): pp. 378, 386.
Hayes, John. The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. London, 1982, 2: pp. 487, 488 (ill.).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 338-339, no. A92.
Scheyer, Ernst. Bulletin of the DIA 15, 7 (April 1936): no. 113.
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English, Coastal Scene with Figures and Shipping, 18th century, gray wash over black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 34.112.
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