Diana and Her Attendants
Thomas Stothard
n.d.
Medium
Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on oval-shaped tan laid paper, laid down down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
13.1 × 18 cm (5 3/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85312
About the Artist
Thomas Stothard · 1755–1834
Thomas Stothard RA (1755–1834) was born on 17 August 1755 at the Black Horse Inn in London's Long Acre, the son of a prosperous publican originally from Stutton near Tadcaster. A delicate child, he was sent at age five to relatives in Yorkshire, attending schools in Acomb, Tadcaster, and later Ilford, Essex, where he honed his drawing skills by copying prints. Following his father's death in 1770,...