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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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Studies of a Group of Female Spectators. Verso: Similar Figures

Studies of a Group of Female Spectators. Verso: Similar Figures

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Study for a plate from The Task

Study for a plate from The Task

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Seated Nymph and Two Putti

Seated Nymph and Two Putti

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Sketches ?for an Illustration for the ‘Surrender of Calais’: Standing Draped Male Figures. A Group of Women and Children. Seated Male Nudes ?from the Frieze of the Parthenon. Verso: Similar Standing and Seated Figures

Sketches ?for an Illustration for the ‘Surrender of Calais’: Standing Draped Male Figures. A Group of Women and Children. Seated Male Nudes ?from the Frieze of the Parthenon. Verso: Similar Standing and Seated Figures

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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 Task

Study for a plate from The Task

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Frieze Design in Classical Manner

Frieze Design in Classical Manner

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Sketch for ‘The Pilgrimage to Canterbury’, with a compositional sketch, a key to the figures, and studies of heads and figures

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Studies of Children Playing at Soldiers

Studies of Children Playing at Soldiers

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Two Recumbent Boys and a Panther, Part of a Frieze. Verso: Sketch

Two Recumbent Boys and a Panther, Part of a Frieze. Verso: Sketch

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