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Studies of Heads (verso)

c. 1820s(?)

Thomas Monro

(British, 1759–1833)
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Culture
England, 18th century
Medium
black chalk
Support
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.b
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Location
Not on view
Print
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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 vertically oriented sheet of black chalk sketches depicts several studies of faces. At the center, there is a large sketch of a man's profile facing left with hair in a ponytail. Below that is a sketch of a man in three-quarter view facing left. At the lower left, there is a sketch of a profile head. The right side of the aged paper contains faint facial features and scribbled lines.

Studies of Heads (verso)

c. 1820s(?)

Thomas Monro

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

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