The present Lot will be on view at Freeman's Upper East Side galleries located at 32 E. 67th St in New York, May 6-11, 10am-5pm weekdays; 11am-5pm Saturday, May 9; closed Sunday, May 10.

Provenance:

Crabtree

Colnaghi, purchased by Southampton General Hospital to present to Dr. M. K. Jardine

Sold: Sotheby's, London, June 19, 1969, Lot 172

Drysdale

Dr. Brian Bird, Cleveland, Ohio

Sold: Sotheby's, London, March 10, 1988, Lot 11

Literature:

John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970, p. 269, no. 698