id:			164753
accession number:	2006.156
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.156
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A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool, mid-1780s. Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788). Watercolor, ink and oil paint heightened with white chalk ("Bristol lead white"); sheet: 21.9 x 31.3 cm (8 5/8 x 12 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2006.156

title:				A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool
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creation date:			mid-1780s
creation date earliest:		1780
creation date latest:		1789
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	watercolor, ink and oil paint heightened with white chalk ("Bristol lead white")
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Hayes 731

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CREATORS

* Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 21.9 x 31.3 cm (8 5/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Thomas Gainsborough: Themes and Variations, The Art of Landscape</em>. Lowell Libson, London (May 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-05-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Gainsborough Drawings</em>. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 2 - December 4, 1983); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (December 17, 1983 - February 12, 1984); Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (February 25 - April 22, 1984).', 'opening_date': '1983-10-02T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Thomas Gainsborough</em>. Tate Gallery, London (October 8, 1980 - January 4, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1980-10-08T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Goodenough Earle, Barton Grange, Somerset, England
	date: ?-?
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	Francis Miller Newton, by descent to Josepha Sophia Newton
	date: ?-1794
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	Josepha Sophia Newton
	date: 1848-?
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	Francis Wheat Newton
	date: ?-1913
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	(Agnew's, London)
	date: 1913-1914
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	(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY)
	date: 1914
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	George D. Widener [1889-1971], Philadelphia
	date: ?-?
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	Private collection, by descent to private collection, United States
	date: ?-?
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	Private collection, United States
	date: ?-1989
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	David Lee, UK, by descent to private collection
	date: after 1989-2005
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	Private collection
	date: 2005
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	(Lowell Libson, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2005-2006
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2006-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Fulcher, George. <em>The Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A</em>. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 241
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	Hayes, John. "The Gainsborough Drawings from Barton Grange: Eight Published for the First Time." <em>Connoisseur</em> 161 (February 1966): 86-93.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 86-93; Reproduced: fig. 14
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	Hayes, John. <em>The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough</em>. New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1971.
	page number: 	Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 276, no. 731; Reproduced: vol. 2, pl. 214
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	Hayes, John. <em>Thomas Gainsborough</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Tate Gallery, 1980.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 70-71, no. 47
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	Hayes, John and Lindsay Stainton. <em>Gainsborough Drawings</em>. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1983.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 174, no. 79; Reproduced: facing page
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	Libson, Lowell, Hugh Belsey, and Peter Bower. <em>Thomas Gainsborough: Themes and Variations, the Art of Landscape</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Lowell Libson, 2003.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 13, 18-19, 40-42, no. 5; Reproduced: pp. 18-19, 40-42
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	Litt, Steven. "Museum Buys Rembrandt and Gainsborough Works." <em>Plain Dealer</em> (December 5, 2006): E1, E4.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. E4; Reproduced: p. E1
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	Lemonedes, Heather. "Quintessentially British." <em>Cleveland Art</em> (July/August 2007).
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 8-11
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	Belsey, Hugh. "Drawing for Its Own Sake: Five Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough." In <em>British Painting, Watercolours, and Drawings</em>, ed. Lowell Libson. Exh. Cat. London: Lowell Libson, 2011.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 15-19; Reproduced: fig. 5
	url:		

	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 38-41, 145, no. 9a; Reproduced: p. 39
	url:		

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