| Description | Includes:
-letter from Jeanette Frost, dated 23 August 1972, concerning an early copy of 'Woody Lane with Market Cart going over Rising Ground', EKW's catalogue no. 934
-two scientific & technical reports and a rough x-ray plan concerning versions of 'The Watering Place' held at the National Gallery and Los Angeles, EKW's catalogue no. 937
-Mayne, Jonathan (1965) 'Thomas Gainsborough's Exhibition Box', The Victoria & Albert Museum Bulletin, July 1965, Vol I, No.3. Also includes 5 photographs of Gainsborough's 'showbox' (in the V&A collection)
-'Gainsborough's Show Box' & 'Transparencies Gainsborough Painted', The Illustrated London News, 20 Jan 1934, pp80-81
-letter from Oliffe Richmond, dated 18 November 1971, concerning 'Cattle Returning Home at Evening', EKW's catalogue no. 953, & 'Mounted Peasant Driving Cattle over Bridge: Lovers', EKW's catalogue no. 959
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