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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)

More by Thomas Stothard

Sketch for Illustration to Bowyer’s ‘History of England’: Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury

Sketch for Illustration to Bowyer’s ‘History of England’: Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury

Thomas Stothard, 1805

Thirlmere: Below, Detailed Sketches Showing the Lake and Mountains

Thirlmere: Below, Detailed Sketches Showing the Lake and Mountains

Thomas Stothard, 1809

Sheet of Sketches of Mythological Subjects

Sheet of Sketches of Mythological Subjects

Thomas Stothard, 1700

The Lost Apple, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

The Lost Apple, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

Thomas Stothard, 1803

Plate from Telemachus

Plate from Telemachus

Thomas Stothard, 1793

Two Children in Stuart Costume. Verso: Sketches of a Child’s Head

Two Children in Stuart Costume. Verso: Sketches of a Child’s Head

Thomas Stothard

Design for R. Pollard’s ‘The Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland’; Matthew de Johnson Defeating the Earl of Douglas and Taking his Brother the Earl of Ormond Prisoner: A Border of Fighting Figures. Verso: Similar Design, Flanked by a Standing Female

Design for R. Pollard’s ‘The Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland’; Matthew de Johnson Defeating the Earl of Douglas and Taking his Brother the Earl of Ormond Prisoner: A Border of Fighting Figures. Verso: Similar Design, Flanked by a Standing Female

Thomas Stothard

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

Sketches for Tristram Shandy (recto); Sketches of Medallion with Seated Allegorical Figure (verso)

Sketches for Tristram Shandy (recto); Sketches of Medallion with Seated Allegorical Figure (verso)

Thomas Stothard, 1796

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

Thomas Stothard, 1789

[title not known]

[title not known]

Thomas Stothard, 1806

Studies of Children

Studies of Children

Thomas Stothard