About This Artwork
Thomas Gainsborough
English, 1727-1788
Coastal View1786/88
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
300 x 423 mm
The Regenstein Collection, 1989.15
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, "European Drawings: Recent Acquisitions," 23 November-9 December 1988, cat. 56.
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 20 February-23 March 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Acquisitions in the Regenstein Collection: 1974-1989," 2 February-8 May 1990.
New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 33; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection," 20 February-28 April 1995.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art," May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 8 (ill.).
Publication History
Duncan Bull, "Exhibition Reviews," Burlington Magazine (January 1989), p. 49.
"Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), p. 58-59 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), p. 12.
Martha Tedeschi, “Coastal View, 1786/88,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 58-59, cat. 24.
Ownership History
Charlotte Major [London 1988]. Sold by Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, to the Art Institute, 1989.