Tom -- Florence

1838

George Richmond

Associated Names
George Richmond

Artist, British, 1809 - 1896

The image is an ink and chalk drawing depicting several studies of figures, focusing primarily on legs and feet. In the foreground, there is a detailed rendering of a set of legs viewed from various angles, some folded underneath the body, with the feet closely together, suggesting a reclining posture. The lower body is covered in cloth that appears to be loosely draped, and the rest of the figure is not detailed. Up above, there are faint outlines of additional figures sketched with less detail, capturing the forms in various resting or reclining postures, with one set of crossed feet visible in the upper left corner. The figures have no discernible facial features due to the sketch's focus on the lower body forms and the roughness of the lines. There is a signature at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite, white gouache, and pen and brown ink on tan wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.4 × 18.5 cm (10 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
    mount: 35.8 × 24.7 cm (14 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.38.4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Conrad Graeber, Riderwood, MD); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower center of sheet, in graphite: Tom--Florence; by later hand, lower center of mount in ink: Sketches by George Richmond of T. K. R. 1838 / when living in Italy.


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