Landscape with Cottage (recto) (c. 1820s): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Cottage (recto) (c. 1820s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Thomas Monro (British, 1759–1833).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Cottage (recto)
• Date: c. 1820s
• Creator attribution: Thomas Monro (British, 1759–1833)
• Culture: England, 18th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: black chalk and gray wash with scraping
• Dimensions: Sheet: 15.6 x 23 cm (6 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - British
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2005.300.a

A detail from the museum

Dr. Thomas Monro established what became known as an "Academy," where artists gathered in the evenings to draw, at his home overlooking the Thames.

Collection credit

Gift of Louise S. Richards

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.

View the collection record

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