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

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Study for a plate from The Task

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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A Deathbed Scene

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Study for a plate from Telemachus

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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

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Design for Johnson’s ‘History of Rasselas’: Studies of Standing Figures and Similar Oriental Subjects. Verso: Sketches

Design for Johnson’s ‘History of Rasselas’: Studies of Standing Figures and Similar Oriental Subjects. Verso: Sketches

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

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

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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

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