id: 145168 accession number: 1970.338 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.338 updated: 2024-08-08 15:15:39.281000 Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Mother), 1776. George Romney (British, 1734–1802). Brown ink, pen and wash, with graphite underdrawing; sheet: 50.1 x 29.3 cm (19 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1970.338 title: Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Mother) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1776 creation date earliest: 1776 creation date latest: 1776 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: brown ink, pen and wash, with graphite underdrawing department: Drawings collection: DR - British type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * George Romney (British, 1734–1802) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 50.1 x 29.3 cm (19 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: moderately textured, thick beige laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed, in brown ink, at upper center: No. 118; stamped, on verso, stamp of Alfred A. de Pass [L. 108a] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Brush Drawings opening date: 1981-03-03T05:00:00 Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981). 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 --- PROVENANCE Alfred A. de Pass [1861-1953, L. 108a], London date: ?-? footnotes: *
His mark at lower right, in black ink.
citations: (Paul Drey Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1970 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October-December 1970." Art Quarterly 34, no. 2 (Summer 1971). page number: Mentioned: p. 253 url: Dixon, Yvonne Romney. "Designs from Fancy": George Romney's Shakespearean Drawings. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 219 url: Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Mentioned: pp. 34-35, 148, no. 7; Reproduced: p. 35 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.338/1970.338_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.338/1970.338_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.338/1970.338_full.tif