Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011212Studies of Heads (verso)
by Thomas Monro
About the Artwork
Dr. Thomas Monro is best known as a patron who exercised significant influence in the London art world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but he was also an amateur artist and competent follower of Thomas Gainsborough. The physician’s drawings were monochromatic, done in wash with additions of charcoal, chalk, or india ink in emulation of Gainsborough’s moody rural views. On the verso of the drawing is a mise-en-page of caricatures and a hillside—perhaps whimsically drawn by multiple artists at one of the doctor’s salons.
Inscriptions
verso, in graphite: A 16477
Exhibition history
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Monro (British, 1759–1833)
- Date
- c. 1820s(?)
- Medium
- black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 15.6 x 23 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Louise S. Richards
- Accession no.
- 2005.300.b
More by Thomas Monro in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011212
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