Art, literature & history
A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses)
ca. 1780
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Black chalk, brush and brown wash
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (23.2 x 27.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 59.23.43
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Gainsborough. A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses). Thomas Gainsborough; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses) — Thomas Gainsborough. ca. 1780.
Medium: Black chalk, brush and brown wash. Dimensions: sheet: 9 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (23.2 x 27.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.