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5¹?? x 7¹?? in. (14.7 x 18.5 cm.)

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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. (SUDBURY, SUFFOLK 1727-1788 LONDON) A study of a donkey with panniers and a slight sketch of a figure stamped 'T Gainsborough' (lower centre) and stamped 'T Gainsborough' and 'Gainsborough' (upper centre) and indistinctly inscribed 'Very....' (along the lower edge) pencil on paper with a fragmentary coronet watermark 53?4 x 71?4 in. (14.7 x 18.5 cm.) Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 March 1974, lot 49 (130 gns to Hope). Anonymous sale; Christie's, Lonodn, 5 November 1974, lot 40 (55 gns to Boyce). Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1976, lot 193. J. Hayes, 'Gainsborough Drawings: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné', Master Drawings, XXI, no. 4, 1983, p. 391, no. 985. S. Sloman, 'The Holloway Gainsborough: its subject re-examined’, Gainsborough’s House Review, 1997/98, pp. 50-51, fig. 3. London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 38. -