id: 144655
accession number: 1969.28
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Woman Standing among the Friars (recto) Sketches of Heads (verso, left); Two Women (verso, right), c. 1770–75. John Brown (British, 1752–1787). Graphite and gray and black wash with point of brush; image: 25.8 x 36.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1969.28
title: Woman Standing among the Friars (recto) Sketches of Heads (verso, left); Two Women (verso, right)
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creation date: c. 1770–75
creation date earliest: 1765
creation date latest: 1780
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creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: England, 18th century
technique: graphite and gray and black wash with point of brush
department: Drawings
collection: DR - British
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* John Brown (British, 1752–1787) - artist
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measurements: Image: 25.8 x 36.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1969
opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
title: The Poetical Circle: Fuseli and the British
opening date: 1979-04-24T05:00:00
The Poetical Circle: Fuseli and the British. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (April 24-May 27, 1979); Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Austria (June 5-July 29, 1979); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organizer) (September 1-27, 1979); Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand (October 24-November 25, 1979).
title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00
Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).
title: The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art
opening date: 1990-05-01T04:00:00
The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990).
title: British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes. Musée Carnavalet, Paris (November - December, 1950).", 'opening_date': '1950-11-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome. Philadelphia Museum of Art (March 16 - May 28, 2000); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June 25 - September 17, 2000).', 'opening_date': '2000-03-16T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(William Young Ottley, London)
date: ?-?
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Sir Thomas Lawrence [1769-1830], London
date: ?-1830
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(sale, Christie's, June 17, 1830, no. 99, purchased by Russell)
date: 1830
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Russell
date: 1830-?
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Private Collection, Paris
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(Eugene V. Thaw and Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: ?-1969
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1969-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Todd, Ruthven. Tracks in the Snow. London: Grey Walls Press, 1946.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 87-88
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Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections Parisiennes. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée Carnavalet, 1950.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 45, no. 92
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Powell, Nicholas. "Brown and the Women of Rome." Signature: A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts, no. 14 (1952).
page number: Mentioned: p. 42; Reproduced: facing page
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Lee, Sherman E.. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (January 1970): 2-50.
page number: Reproduced: p.19, no. 157; Mentioned: p. 48, no. 157
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 194
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n214
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Watercolours and Drawings. London: Sotheby's,1981.
page number: Mentioned: p. 66, under no. 73
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Calvini, Anna Ottani. "Inglesi in Italia nel secolo XVIII: Benjamin West, James Barry, John Brown, John Flaxman." In Pittori europei in Italia: Pittori italiani in Europa. Milan: Edizioni Angelo Guerinie Associati, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 59-81, 76, no. 9; Reproduced: p. 76, no. 9
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Upstone, Robert. Sketchbooks of the Romantics. Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1991.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 174-75
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Craske, Matthew. Art in Europe, 1700-1830: A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 256, no. 117
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Macmillan, Duncan. Scottish Art, 1460-2000. Edinburgh: Mainstream Pub, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 128, no. 103
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Bowron, Edgar Peters and Joseph J. Rishel. Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. Cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 480, no. 323
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IMAGES
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