Fortitude: 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 brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 12.1 × 9.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 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.: 1922.1627

Preliminary Design for Monument to John Gay the Poet
John Michael Rysbrack
c. 1736 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003867
Project for a Statue: Woman Holding Book with Right Hand
John Michael Rysbrack
1700s · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003868
Unexecuted Design for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough
John Michael Rysbrack
c. 1733 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003876
Design for an Unexecuted Funerary Monument for the First Duke of Marlborough
John Michael Rysbrack
n.d. · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003880