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Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

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

c. 1820s

Thomas Monro

(British, 1759–1833)
England, 18th century
black chalk and gray wash with scraping
Sheet: 15.6 x 23 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
Gift of Louise S. Richards 2005.300
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

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.
  • ?-2005
    Louise Richards, Oberlin, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    2005
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 64-67, 147, no. 20; Reproduced: p. 65
  • British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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