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Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788 Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1785-1787 oil on canvas Overall: 220 x 154 cm (86 5/8 x 60 5/8 in.) framed: 251.5 x 185.4 x 14 cm (99 x 73 x 5 1/2 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.92 |
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| 1785 | Morning Herald, 30 March 1785. |
| 1785 | Public Advertiser, 13 April 1785. |
| 1786 | Morning Herald, 30 December 1786. |
| 1856 | Fulcher, George Williams. Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.. 2d rev. ed. London, 1856: 226. |
| 1880 | Graves, Henry, & Company. Engravings from the Works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. London [c. 1880]: no. 100 (mezzotint by James Scott, published 1878). |
| 1898 | Armstrong, Sir Walter. Gainsborough & His Place in English Art. London, 1898: 202, pl. 31; popular ed., London, 1904: 279, repro. opp. 164. |
| 1915 | Whitley, William T. Thomas Gainsborough. London, 1915: 201-202, 238-239, 257, 260, 265, repro. opp. 265. |
| 1928 | Whitley, William T. Artists and Their Friends in England 1700-1800. 2 vols. London, 1928: 1:397. |
| 1941 | Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: nos. 285, repro., 286, detail repro. |
| 1941 | Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 70-71. |
| 1942 | Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 241, repro. 15. |
| 1944 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 130, color repro. |
| 1946 | Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.. New York, 1946: 55-57, color repro. |
| 1949 | Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 113, repro. |
| 1958 | Waterhouse, Sir Ellis. Gainsborough. London, 1958: no. 613, pl. 256. |
| 1960 | Cooke, Hereward Lester. British Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Eight in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 16, color repro. |
| 1963 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 218, repro. |
| 1965 | Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 54 |
| 1966 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:354, color repro. |
| 1968 | European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 47, repro. |
| 1975 | Paulson, Ronald. Emblem and Expression. London, 1975: 218, 228, pl. 151. |
| 1975 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 142, repro. |
| 1975 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 494, color repro. |
| 1982 | Hayes, John. The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. 2 vols. London and New York, 1982: 1:167, pl. 202. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 354, no. 492, color repro. |
| 1985 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 163, repro. |
| 1992 | Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 103-106, color repro. 105. |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 152, repro. |
| 1993 | Miles, Ellen G., ed. The Portrait in Eighteenth-Century America. Newark, 1993, fig. 7. |
| 1995 | Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York, 1995: 942, fig. 26-19, repro. (Rev. ed. 1999: 934, fig. 26-2, repro.) |
| 1997 | Asfour, Amal and Paul Williamson. Gainsborough's Wit, Indiana, 1997, no. 6, repro. |
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