Sheet of Studies with Angels and Cowering Figures (Illustration for Macklin's Bible?)
Thomas Stothard
c. 1791
Medium
graphite with pen and brown ink and touches of gray wash on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15.8 x 29 cm (6 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Accession Number
2009.70.228.a
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,...