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Source 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.
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Document identity
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163926
label
Landscape with Cottage (recto); Studies of Heads (verso)
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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163926
contentType
drawing
title
Landscape with Cottage (recto); Studies of Heads (verso)
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.
date
c. 1820s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79990773
creators
53041
genreSpecific
Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 15.6 x 23 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
cul
England, 18th century
accession
2005.3
Source extras
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black chalk and gray wash with scraping
tombstone
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
supportMaterials
description
antique cream laid paper
collection
DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
verso, in graphite: A 16477
didYouKnow
Dr. Thomas Monro established what became known as an "Academy," where artists gathered in the evenings to draw, at his home overlooking the Thames.
citations
citation
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
creditline
Gift of Louise S. Richards
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2026-05-29 08:31:19.656000
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163926
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Drawings
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DR - British
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black chalk and gray wash with scraping
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male
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1
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photo
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