Unexecuted Design for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: John Michael Rysbrack / Flemish, 1693-1770
Date: c. 1733
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper
Dimensions: 23.3 × 17 cm (9 3/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Flanders
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.1609

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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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