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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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Sketches ?for an Illustration for the ‘Surrender of Calais’: Groups of Various Figures, Captives, Etc. Verso: Sketches of a Couple Embracing

Sketches ?for an Illustration for the ‘Surrender of Calais’: Groups of Various Figures, Captives, Etc. Verso: Sketches of a Couple Embracing

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Calypso with her Nymphs Caressing Cupid

Calypso with her Nymphs Caressing Cupid

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Study for a plate from The Task

Study for a plate from The Task

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Illustration to Goldsmith’s ‘Vicar of Wakefield’: Studies of a Girl and Children

Illustration to Goldsmith’s ‘Vicar of Wakefield’: Studies of a Girl and Children

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Design for an Illustration to ‘Rob Roy’

Design for an Illustration to ‘Rob Roy’

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Study for a plate from Telemachus

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Thomas Stothard, 1793

Preparatory Studies for a Female Caryatid. Verso: Sketch

Preparatory Studies for a Female Caryatid. Verso: Sketch

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A Putto in an Arabesque, Blue Background: ?Design for the Decoration of One of the Lunettes at Buckingham Palace Executed by Bernasconi

A Putto in an Arabesque, Blue Background: ?Design for the Decoration of One of the Lunettes at Buckingham Palace Executed by Bernasconi

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Two Men and a Woman Seated in St James’s Park

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Design for an Illustration to Kearsley’s ‘Odysseus’ (?Telemachus), Calypso: A Group of Seated Women. Verso: A Man Supporting a Dying Woman

Design for an Illustration to Kearsley’s ‘Odysseus’ (?Telemachus), Calypso: A Group of Seated Women. Verso: A Man Supporting a Dying Woman

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Studies of Kneeling and Recumbent Figures, ?after Raphael. Verso: Sketch

Studies of Kneeling and Recumbent Figures, ?after Raphael. Verso: Sketch

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