Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)Thomas Gainsborough (National Gallery of Art, 2003-02-09 - 2003-05-04)Thomas Gainsborough (Tate Britain, 2002-10-24 - 2003-01-12)British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Arts Council of Great Britain, Gainsborough drawings, London, 1960, p. 17, no. 38, NJ18 .G16 H38 (LC) (YCBA)John Gage, Zwei Jahrhunderte englische Malerei : britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880 : [Ausstellung] Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, 21. November 1979 bis 27. Januar 1980: [Katalog], , Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 1979, pp. 114-16, no. 59, fig. 59, ND466 Z85 (YCBA)John T. Hayes, Gainsborough as printmaker, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1972, pp. 92, 97, fig. 81, NJ18 G16 H41+ (YCBA)John T. Hayes, The drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven London, 1971, vol. 1, p. 260, no. 661, pl. 195, NJ18 G16 H39 + (YCBA)Michael Rosenthal, Gainsborough, Tate Publishing, London, 2002, pp. 264-65, no. 163, NJ18 G16 G24 2002 + (YCBA)The Courtauld Gallery, The William Spooner Collection and Bequest : April to July 1968, The Courtauld Institute Galleries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968, p. 12, no. 28, pl. 6, NC27 .G7 L678 (LC) (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850 : drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 21, no. 31, fig. LXI, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 26-27, no. 8, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
This is a preparatory drawing for an aquatint, although the only prints to survive from it were made by John Boydell (1720-1804) in 1797, well after Gainsborough's death. Here Gainsborough has allowed the buff-colored paper to act as his midtone then added white chalk and gouache for highlight, and charcoal and dark washes of ink for shadow. Although the surface is characteristically marked with a great richness and variety of textures, the strong tonal contrast between the blackness of the trees and the whiteness of the clouds indicates that it was designed with engraving in mind since it is ideally suited to reproduction as a black-and-white print. Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)