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Study for a plate from The Task by Thomas Stothard — VisualArtsDB

Study for a plate from The Task

Study for a plate from The Task

Thomas Stothard

1795–1805

Medium: Ink wash on paper
Dimensions: 2.7 × 5 cm (1 1/8 × 2 in.)
Genre: ink or chalk wash
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)ink or chalk washprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)

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Sketch for Illustration to Bowyer’s ‘History of England’: Two Recumbent Children, for the Headpiece ‘The Murder of Edward V and his Brother’. Verso: Sketches of a Mother and Child

Sketch for Illustration to Bowyer’s ‘History of England’: Two Recumbent Children, for the Headpiece ‘The Murder of Edward V and his Brother’. Verso: Sketches of a Mother and Child

Thomas Stothard, 1805

Study for a plate from The Triumphs of Temper, in the 1796 Royal Engagements Pocket Book

Study for a plate from The Triumphs of Temper, in the 1796 Royal Engagements Pocket Book

Thomas Stothard, 1790

Study for a plate from The Triumphs of Temper, in the 1796 Royal Engagements Pocket Book

Study for a plate from The Triumphs of Temper, in the 1796 Royal Engagements Pocket Book

Thomas Stothard, 1790

Scene in Elizabethan Costume, Noblemen Meeting a Beggar Woman

Scene in Elizabethan Costume, Noblemen Meeting a Beggar Woman

Thomas Stothard

Coast Scene: Open Landscape, Houses to Right

Coast Scene: Open Landscape, Houses to Right

Thomas Stothard

Sketches ?for an Illustration for the ‘Surrender of Calais’: A Massacre. Verso: Group of Figures in Contemporary Dress

Sketches ?for an Illustration for the ‘Surrender of Calais’: A Massacre. Verso: Group of Figures in Contemporary Dress

Thomas Stothard

Study for a plate from The Task

Study for a plate from The Task

Thomas Stothard, 1795

The Pilgrimage to Canterbury

The Pilgrimage to Canterbury

Thomas Stothard, 1820

A Valley

A Valley

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Calypso with her Nymphs Caressing Cupid

Calypso with her Nymphs Caressing Cupid

Thomas Stothard, 1814

Illustration to Dryden’s ‘Fables’: A Girl Seated in an Arbour. Study for ‘The Flower and the Leaf’

Illustration to Dryden’s ‘Fables’: A Girl Seated in an Arbour. Study for ‘The Flower and the Leaf’

Thomas Stothard, 1806

Study for a plate from The Task

Study for a plate from The Task

Thomas Stothard, 1795