Landscape with Cottage (recto)

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 horizontally oriented black chalk and gray wash drawing on textured paper depicts a cottage nestled in dense woods. On the right, the building features a bright white wall and a dark gabled roof with a chimney. Expressive, broad chalk strokes and smudging convey textured foliage in the surrounding trees. A pale, winding path leads from the lower left toward the center, set against deep shadows and stark tonal contrasts.

Landscape with Cottage (recto)

c. 1820s

Thomas Monro

(British, 1759–1833)

England, 18th century

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