id: 144655 accession number: 1969.28 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.28 updated: 2025-03-04 14:28:44.630000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1770–75 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1780 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: graphite and gray and black wash with point of brush department: Drawings collection: DR - British type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Brown (British, 1752–1787) - artist --- measurements: Image: 25.8 x 36.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE (William Young Ottley, London) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Sir Thomas Lawrence [1769-1830], London date: ?-1830 footnotes: citations: (sale, Christie's, June 17, 1830, no. 99, purchased by Russell) date: 1830 footnotes: citations: Russell date: 1830-? footnotes: citations: Private Collection, Paris date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Eugene V. Thaw and Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1969 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Todd, Ruthven. Tracks in the Snow. London: Grey Walls Press, 1946. page number: Mentioned: pp. 87-88 url: Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections Parisiennes. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée Carnavalet, 1950. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 45, no. 92 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Upstone, Robert. Sketchbooks of the Romantics. Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1991. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 174-75 url: 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 url: Macmillan, Duncan. Scottish Art, 1460-2000. Edinburgh: Mainstream Pub, 2000. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 128, no. 103 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.28/1969.28_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.28/1969.28_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.28/1969.28_full.tif