Mountain Landscape with a Castle and a Boatman

Inscription: in pen and brown ink at upper right of recto: "WE" (Lugt 2617), collector's mark of William Esdaile (1758–1837).
in pen and black ink at lower left of verso: "1824 WE Nassau's sale N N 57x" (Esdaile's hand)
in pen and black ink at center of verso: "Gainsboro" (Esdaile's hand)

George Richard S. Nassau (British), sold at the following; Nassau sale, held by Mr. Evans (British), March 25-27, 1824, part of lot 244, bought by Thane; William Esdaile (British); Esdaile sale, Christie's, London, March 20-21, 1838, lot 658, bought by White; Vendor: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Vendor: Through Roger Eliot Fry (British)

Hayes no. 672

Roger Eliot Fry "Drawings." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 2, no. 12, (December 1907), p. 202.

Mary Woodall Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings. London, 1939, cat. no. 465, pp. 52, 142.

Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, no. 58, vol. II, ill.

Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 98, ill.

"Drawings from the Roger Fry Purchase." Apollo. 82, (September 1965), fig. no. 5, p. 248.

John T. Hayes The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough. Yale University Press, 2 vols., New Haven, 1971, not reproduced, cat. no. 672, p. 263.

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. 13, 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. 13, pp. 112-113, ill.