id:			163926
accession number:	2005.300
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.300
updated:		2023-03-20 10:12:16.653000

Landscape with Cottage (recto); Studies of Heads (verso), c. 1820s. Thomas Monro (British, 1759–1833). Black chalk and gray wash with scraping; sheet: 15.6 x 23 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Louise S. Richards 2005.300

title:				Landscape with Cottage (recto); Studies of Heads (verso)
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			c. 1820s
creation date earliest:		1820
creation date latest:		1829
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Louise S. Richards
copyright:			

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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	black chalk and gray wash with scraping
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Thomas Monro (British, 1759–1833)  - artist
follower of Gainsborough
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measurements: Sheet: 15.6 x 23 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	antique cream laid paper
	watermarks:	

inscriptions:

	inscription:	verso, in graphite: A 16477
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Louise Richards, Oberlin, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?-2005
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2005
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fun fact:
Dr. Thomas Monro established what became known as an "Academy," where artists gathered in the evenings to draw, at his home overlooking the Thames.

digital description:
Dr. Thomas Monro is best known as a patron who exercised significant influence in the London art world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but he was also an amateur artist and competent follower of Thomas Gainsborough. The physician’s drawings were monochromatic, done in wash with additions of charcoal, chalk, or india ink in emulation of Gainsborough’s moody rural views. On the verso of the drawing is a mise-en-page of caricatures and a hillside—perhaps whimsically drawn by multiple artists at one of the doctor’s salons.

wall description:
Dr. Monro is best known as a patron who exercised significant influence in the London art world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but he was also an amateur artist and competent follower of Thomas Gainsborough. The physician’s drawings were monochromatic, done in wash with additions of charcoal, chalk, or india ink in emulation of Gainsborough’s moody rural views. On the verso of the drawing is a mise-en-page of caricatures and a hillside-perhaps whimsically drawn by multiple artists at one of the doctor’s salons.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 64-67, 147, no. 20; Reproduced: p. 65
	url:		

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IMAGES

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