Woodland Scene with a Peasant, a Horse, and a Cart

Marking: Monogram T G (intertwined) stamped in gold at lower left of recto [possibly monogram of the artist, as suggested by John Hayes].

Goodenough Earle, of Barton Grange, Somerset (British); Francis Milner Newton (British); Lady Cooper (British)(only daughter and heiress of the preceding); John Newton, Esq. (British)(cousin of the preceding); Francis Wheat Newton (British)(son of the preceding); Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd.; Knoedler and Co. (French, British, American), New York (in 1914); Isaac D. Fletcher (American)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," July 29–October 21, 1996.

Hayes no. 260

George Williams Fulcher Life of Thomas Gainsborough. 2nd edition. London, 1856.

Sir Bernard Burke Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. 2 vols., London, 1871, vol. II, p. 985, entry for Newton of Barton Grange, gives date of birth for Francis Wheat Newton, and previous owners of the estate.

Mary Woodall Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings. London, 1939, cat. no. 467, p. 57.

John T. Hayes "The Gainsborough Drawings from Barton Grange" The Connoisseur. vol. 161, February 1966, p. 86 (Barton Grange drawings, pp. 86-87, 90-91, 93, fig. 10).

John T. Hayes The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough. Yale University Press, 2 vols., New Haven, 1971, cat. no. 260, p. 169 (Barton Grange drawings, pp. 25-6, 34, 93-4, 169).

Janet S. Byrne, Linda Boyer Gillies English Landscape Artists. Exh. brochure, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971, cat. no. 12, p. 3.

Glorious Nature: British Landscape Painting 1750-1850. Exh. cat. Denver: Denver Art Museum. Katharine Baetjer, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1993, cat. no. 11, p. 108, ill.