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Landscape with Cottage (recto); Studies of Heads (verso)

c. 1820s

Thomas Monro

(British, 1759–1833)
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Culture
England, 18th century
Medium
black chalk and gray wash with scraping
Support
Antique cream laid paper
Measurements
Sheet: 15.6 x 23 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Louise S. Richards 2005.300
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Not on view
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Dr. Thomas Monro established what became known as an "Academy," where artists gathered in the evenings to draw, at his home overlooking the Thames.

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.
A horizontal landscape and a vertical page of sketches are shown together. On the left, black chalk and gray wash depict a pale cottage with a smoking chimney amidst dark, massed trees. A winding path snakes from the lower left toward the building. On the right, a vertical beige sheet contains several chalk heads. A large profile of a man with a prominent nose faces left at the top, while smaller heads are scattered below.

Landscape with Cottage (recto); Studies of Heads (verso)

c. 1820s

Thomas Monro

(British, 1759–1833)
England, 18th century

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