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The Road from Market

Artist Thomas Gainsborough British, 1727-1788

Date1767-8

DimensionsPainting: 47 3/4 × 67 in. (121.3 × 170.2 cm)
Frame: 60 1/2 × 80 × 5 1/2 in. (153.7 × 203.2 × 14 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1955.221

Not on View

Collections

Paintings

Published ReferencesAnonymous (J. Britton), The Beauties of Wiltshire, 1801, II, p. 218.

Connoisseur, vol. 136, November 1955, p. 230, repr.

Museum Journal, vol. 55, November 1955, p. 213, repr. pl. XL.

Waterhouse, E.K., Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 24, no. 906, pl. 98.

Woodward, J., "Wilkie's Portrait of Esdaile," Burlington Magazine, CIV, Mar. 1962, p. 117.

Hayes, J., "Gainsborough and Rubens," Apollo, LXXVII, Aug. 1963, pp. 90, 91, fig. 4 and cover (detail).

Hayes, J., "Gainsborough," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Apr. 1965, pp. 320-321, 324, figs. 9, 10.

A Guide to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1966, repr.

The Toledo Museum of Art, A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1966, repr. (col.) p. 70.

Hayes, John, "British Patrons and Landscape Painting," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 69, Nov. 1967, p. 358, repr. (black and white).

Glendinnin, Sally, Thomas Gainsborough, Artist of England, Champaign, Ill., 1969, repr. (col.), p. 96.

Kitson, Michael, "Bicentenaire de la Royal Academy," Revue de l'Art, no. 5, 1969, p. 94.

Woodall, M., Thomas Gainsborough, New York, 1970, pp. 77-78, repr. p. 36.

Hayes, J., The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, no. 283.

Woodall, Mary, Thomas Gainsborough, New York, 1970, pp. 78, 86, repr. (col.), p. 36 (called Peasants Returning from Market through a Wood).

Hayes, J., "A Turning Point in Style: Landscape with Woodcutter," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bulletin, IV, Summer, 1973, pp. 26, 28, repr. fig. 3.

Herrmann, Luke, British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1974, p. 97.

The Toledo Museum of Art, European Painting, Toledo, 1976, p. 61, pl. 316.

The Toledo Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1976, repr. p. 70 (col.).

Pointon, Marcia, "Gainsborough and the Landscape of Retirement," Art History, vol. 2, no. 4, Dec. 1979, p. 451, repr. plate 41.

Morse, John D., Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 136.

Ingamells, John, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Thomas Gainsborough," Burlington, vol. 122, no. 932, Nov. 1980, p. 780.

Lindsay, Jack, Thomas Gainsborough: His Life and Art, London, 1981, p. 84.

Rosenthal, Michael, British Landscape Painting, Oxford, 1982, p. 68, repr. p. 70.

Hayes, John, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1982, no. 89, pp. 104, 110, 112, 115, 120, 125, 134, 430-432, repr. pp. 104, 105 (detail), 106 (detail), 431.

Cormack, Malcolm, The Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, Cambridge, 1991, p. 94, repr. (col.).

De wording van Europa: de mens en het landschap, Weert, 1992, repr. p. 113 (col.).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Treasures, Toledo, 1995, p. 111, repr. (col.).

Kalinsky, Nicola, Gainsborough, London, 1995, p. 64, pl. 17 (col.).

Spencer-Longhurst, Paul, Thomas Gainsborough: the Harvest Wagon, Birmingham, England, 1995, pp. 12, 19.

Howkins, Alun, "Land, Locality, People, Landscape: the Nineteenth-Century Countryside," in Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape 1750-1880, New Haven, 1997, p. 103, fig. 35.

Rosenthal, Michael, The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: "a Little Business for the Eye", New Haven, 1999, pl. 88, p. 93 (col.) [as Wooded Landscape with Mounted Figures].

Asfour, Amal and Paul Williamson, Gainsborough's Vision, Liverpool, 1999, p. 259, fig. 163, p. 257.

Ducan, Sally Anne, Otto Wittmann: Museum Man for All Seasons, Toledo, 2001, p. 16.

Hayes, John, ed., The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, New Haven, 2001, repr. p. 72.

Sloman, Susan, Gainsborough in Bath, New Haven, Yale, 2002, pp. 122-123, 182, 186, repr. p. 124 (col.).

Postle, Martin, Thomas Gainsborough, London, Tate Publishing, 2002, pp. 40, 42, 77, no. 21, fig. 37 (col.), p. 42.

Sasse, Julie, Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tuscon, Tuscon Museum of Art, 2009, p. 19, repr. p. 18 (col.).

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 212, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, 1887, no. 147.

London, Royal Academy, Bicentenary Exhibition, 1968, no. 146.

London, Tate Gallery, Thomas Gainsborough, 1980, no. 113, pp. 120, 122, repr. p. 120, (col. det.) p. 113.

Louvre, Paris. 1980.

Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, lent in conjunction with IEF exhibition "Gainsborough Watercolors and Drawings," 1983, no catalogue.

Denver, Denver Art Museum, Glorious Nature: British Landscape Painting 1750-1850, 1993, no. 12, p. 110, repr. (col.).

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; San Marino, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney, 2001-2002, no. 15, pp. 86, 88, repr. (col.).

New York, Frick Collection, Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art, 2002-2003, p. [11], repr. (col.).