Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum

Description

Contributors

Emily Banas
Dominic Bate
Gina Borromeo
Wai Yee Chiong
Jan Howard
Maureen O'Brien
Elizabeth A. Williams

by Jamie Gabbarelli

Publisher & Date

RISD Museum, 2022
Read Online

Selected Objects

A sketchy brown pen and ink study of an older, dapper gentlemen surrounded by a mass of ill-defined bowing supplicants. The image is overlaid with a grid, presumably for transfer.

James Gillray

Study for An Old English Gentleman Pester’d by Servants Wanting Places
A black ink and wash drawing of a lone female figure wearing a gown leaning against a column. She looks off into the distance. The background is gestural and abstract.

George Romney

Study for the Portrait of Frances Woodley (Mrs. Henry Bankes)
A loosely drawn pen and ink sketch of Saint Jerome and Saint John. Jerome is with a lion and cherub and John, to his right, looks downward toward a lamb.

Donato Creti

Studies for Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist
A red and white chalk drawing of the Holy Family. Mary holds baby Jesus in her lap and points to Joseph working in his carpentry shop. Two putti fly above.

Antonio Gionima

Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph in the Carpenter Shop
A watercolor drawing of bluebells and white primroses surrounded by lush green leaves and grasses. In the front left of the image there is a nest full of blue eggs.

Jane Ogden

Bluebells and Primroses with a Bird’s Nest
A pen and ink drawing of Hercules and other figures in a physical. Floating in the sky above and behind him are three female allegories: Victory, Honor, and Fame.

Carlo Maratti

Double-Sided Sheet with Studies of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides
A black, red, and white chalk portrait of an aristocratic white woman gazing at the viewer. She has red flowers in her curly hair, a neck ruff, and pearl earrings.

Ottavio Leoni

Portrait of the Signora Licinia Leni Marchesa Martinenghi
A sheet with various pen and ink study drawings. At left is a nude Hercules. At right are various annotations and sketches, including of a man wearing a plumed helmet.

Giovanni Battista Bertani

Double-Sided Sheet: Study for Hercules Victorious over the Hydra (recto); Study of Hercules a Roman Soldier’s Head, and Ornament (verso)

More Selected Objects +

Related Publications

  • Digital Publication

Short Cuts

From Pineapple to Pañuelo Philippine Textiles