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The Frick Collection, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1949
(Deluxe edition: Commemorative volume for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Henry Clay Frick)

Volume I: Paintings - text
Catalogue no. 11 Gainsborough's "The Mall", p. 25-28

Text by Sir Charles John Holmes

p. 27 No sketch of variant of the composition seems to be known. Gainsborough did, however, paint a version of the lady on the right in a gray and white lace skirt, the probable history of which is curious. In a little picture (29 x 24 in.), once in the possession of the late Henry Pfungst and later in that of Seligman, of Paris (reproduced in Gower's Thomas Gainsborough, facing page 68), she appears, her little dog frisking this time on the right, against a background of trees and classical building, which, from every evidence of style, must have been painted during Gainsborough's residence at Ipswich. However, the placing of the figure in this earlier design is not happy. Perhaps Gainsborough made a study for it on an old canvas, using as a background a landscape which he had painted some twenty years before and which is identical with that of one of his earliest portraits, the "Young Woman Seated," now in the Cook Collection (see A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, London, 1915, volume III, no. 404).