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Sharing public domain works from the Drawings department of Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 13h

Cropley Ashley-Cooper (Later 6th Earl of Shaftesbury) with His Sister Mary Anne Ashley-Cooper, Later Lady Sturt of Crichel clevelandart.org/art/2011.193

Gardner was last in the line of 18th-century British artists—beginning with Francis Cotes and reaching its zenith with Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and George Romney-whose lucrative careers were based on fashionable portraiture. Initially trained by Romney, Gardner established a successful portrait practice that was based on small-scale works in pastel, often in oval formats with landscape backgrounds, as in this drawing. Gardner was particularly adept at capturing the charm of youth, taking advantage of the special optical properties of pastel, whose minute, irregular particles reflect light diffusely, allowing an unparalleled velvety brilliance.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 17h

Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 01a: Roman Landscape clevelandart.org/art/1989.13.a

Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 01a: Roman Landscape

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 18h

Comparative Anatomy Study clevelandart.org/art/2013.244

Comparative Anatomy Study

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 20h

Cloud Study clevelandart.org/art/1980.110

Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 26a: Roman Architectural View clevelandart.org/art/1989.13.ff

Album with Views of Rome and Surroundings, Landscape Studies, page 26a: Roman Architectural View

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sketchbook: Eildon Hills clevelandart.org/art/1954.648.e

John Ruskin (also in this gallery) admired Prout’s strength as a draftsman. Like the topographical watercolorists of the 18th century, Prout emphasized form over color in his watercolors, as is evident in the monochromatic, delicate English views in this sketchbook.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Design for a Hand Mirror clevelandart.org/art/2009.11.3

Design for a Hand Mirror

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Verona Sketchbook: Gentleman (page 54) clevelandart.org/art/1952.223.bbb

Verona Sketchbook: Gentleman (page 54)

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman (page 1) clevelandart.org/art/1951.422.a

Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman (page 1)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Landscape clevelandart.org/art/1962.21

Landscape

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fashion Study (designed for Worth) clevelandart.org/art/1930.19

Fashion Study (designed for Worth)

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gypsy Camp, Holland clevelandart.org/art/1940.547

Gypsy Camp, Holland

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Landscape with Cattle (recto) Cattle (verso) clevelandart.org/art/1954.675

Landscape with Cattle (recto) Cattle (verso)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Althaea Putting the Fatal Log on the Fire clevelandart.org/art/2008.360

This drawing depicts a scene from the life of Meleager, a figure from Greek mythology who was prophesied to die when a log in the fireplace at the time of his birth completely burned. At that time, Meleager’s mother, Althaea, put out the log and stowed it away for safekeeping. Years later, in the scene depicted here, Althaea exacts revenge on Meleager for killing her brothers in a dispute. Two Furies, goddesses of vengeance, compel the anguished mother to punish her murderous son by burning the fatal log. Picart made this drawing while overseeing the reproduction of Le Brun’s suite of tapestries narrating tales of Meleager into prints. Picart himself made drawings from the tapestries, of which this sheet is an example. The drawings were then used as guides by printmakers Picart hired to re-create the images as engravings.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Windmills in a Landscape clevelandart.org/art/2009.115

Windmills in a Landscape

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Floral Designs and Floral Bands clevelandart.org/art/1952.291

Floral Designs and Floral Bands

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Marquetry Design clevelandart.org/art/1944.113.1

Marquetry Design

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sketchbook, page 66: Study of a Horse clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.mmm

Sketchbook, page 66: Study of a Horse

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Home on a Furlough clevelandart.org/art/1956.732

Home on a Furlough

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Coral Necklace clevelandart.org/art/1997.7

Closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Sandys was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and played an active role in the bohemian artistic, literary, and theatrical circles of the day in London. This is a portrait of Mary Emma Jones, the artist’s favorite model, mistress, and mother of his nine children. An extraordinarily skilled draftsman, here he worked in tone rather than line, delicately drawing in chalk on a rough textured sheet and leaving the low points of the paper untouched to produce a stippled, hazy effect. While Jones’s face is exquisitely detailed, the composition becomes increasingly indistinct at the edges, suggesting an apparition.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman (page 219) clevelandart.org/art/1951.422.aaaa

Italian Sketchbook: Standing Woman (page 219)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Letter (recto) clevelandart.org/art/1941.86.a

In this study for the color drypoint and aquatint of the same title, Cassatt worked out the placement of the figure at a writing table. Details such as the precise incline of her head, the curls on her forehead, and the position of her fingers on the envelope are echoed in the print.

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman clevelandart.org/art/2003.265

Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Battle of the Milvian Bridge (fragment) (verso) clevelandart.org/art/1939.654.b

Battle of the Milvian Bridge (fragment) (verso)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Christ at Emmaus clevelandart.org/art/1942.886

Christ at Emmaus

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Drake's Island, Plymouth clevelandart.org/art/1940.562

Drake's Island, Plymouth

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sketch for "The Wolf Turned Shepherd" clevelandart.org/art/1956.37.a

Sketch for "The Wolf Turned Shepherd"

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the Hospital (recto) Sketch for In the Hospital (verso) clevelandart.org/art/1925.1001

In the Hospital (recto) Sketch for In the Hospital (verso)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Round Tower, Castle of Munoth, Schafhausen, Switzerland clevelandart.org/art/1975.19

Casilear began his career as an engraver but shifted to landscape painting at the suggestion of his friend, the painter Asher B. Durand (1796–1866). He made this drawing while traveling in Europe with Durand and another New York landscape painter, John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872).

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reclining Female Nude (recto) clevelandart.org/art/1989.242.a

Reclining Female Nude (recto)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tree Study clevelandart.org/art/1939.648

Tree Study

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Study of Hands (recto) clevelandart.org/art/1946.447.a

Study of Hands (recto)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Head of a Screaming Man clevelandart.org/art/1967.130.a

After studying in Italy, Benjamin West achieved outstanding success in England, where he served as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and became a personal friend of King George III. West's earliest paintings were classical and restrained in spirit, but in the 1780s, influenced by the writer Edmund Burke, he became interested in producing grand, terrifying compositions of destruction and apocalypse.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Study of a Nude Woman, Seated Looking to the Right (recto) Study of a Male Nude (verso) clevelandart.org/art/1961.318

Study of a Nude Woman, Seated Looking to the Right (recto) Study of a Male Nude (verso)

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sketch - News from the Army clevelandart.org/art/1920.169

Sketch - News from the Army

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sketchbook, page 03: " S.R. Gifford 15 10th Street New York" clevelandart.org/art/1971.116.c

Gifford was an American landscape painter belonging to the second generation of Hudson River school artists. Based in New York City with a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Building, Gifford took annual summer trips to the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and other scenic locations in New England. This sketchbook accompanied the artist on his expedition in 1859 to New Hampshire and Maine, where he drew sites such as Dixville Notch, the White Mountains, and Peaks Island, Casco Bay. Gifford used
such graphite studies as the basis for oil paintings worked up in his studio, such as A Home in the Wilderness (1866).

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saint Peter Martyr clevelandart.org/art/1939.669

Saint Peter Martyr

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Portrait of Mr. Shippard clevelandart.org/art/1941.571

Portrait of Mr. Shippard

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Portrait of M. de Viapre clevelandart.org/art/1941.570

Portrait of M. de Viapre

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

View of Elephanta clevelandart.org/art/1960.168

View of Elephanta

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cloud Study clevelandart.org/art/1980.111

Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A Shepherd with His Flock clevelandart.org/art/1991.210

The notion of the pastoral ideal is made explicit in the work of Jacque. In 1849, along with Jean-François Millet, Jacque moved to the village of Barbizon, which by then was an established artist’s colony. There he painted, drew, and etched rustic landscapes in which man and nature
coexist in perfect harmony.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Le Tsar clevelandart.org/art/1974.153

Le Tsar

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CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shepherd with His Flock clevelandart.org/art/2003.287

Shepherd with His Flock

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sketchbook, page 84: Figure Study, Study of a Ship clevelandart.org/art/1992.344.dddd

Sketchbook, page 84: Figure Study, Study of a Ship

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bonaparte Women clevelandart.org/art/2009.140

Bonaparte Women

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness clevelandart.org/art/1969.69

Rembrandt created some of the most extraordinarily creative and emotionally poignant drawings of the Dutch golden age. With spontaneity, a deft hand, and deceptive simplicity, he recorded deeply personal observations of the world around him. Although this drawing depicts the climactic moment of the Book of Tobit, an apocryphal book of the Old Testament, it also references 16th-century life in Amsterdam. Instructed by the archangel Raphael, Tobit’s son Tobias restores his blind father’s sight by rubbing his eyes with fish gall. But instead of illustrating the miracle in explicitly supernatural terms, Rembrandt showed Tobias using a scalpel to perform a cataract operation on his father’s left eye-a procedure pioneered in Amsterdam in 1635 by the eye specialist Dr. Job Janszoon van Meekren.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

View from My Window in Rome clevelandart.org/art/1974.21.a

From the early 18th to the late 19th century, the Tischbein family produced twenty-eight artists and
artisans who were active in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Carl Ludwig Tischbein first went to Italy in 1819, and by 1825 he was a professor of drawing in the Academy of Rome. This charming view of rooftops and walled gardens is made more immediate by the presence of the cat.

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sketch for a Landscape (verso) clevelandart.org/art/1942.878.b

Sketch for a Landscape (verso)

CMA: Drawings @cmadrawings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rose Bush and Butterfly clevelandart.org/art/1934.139

Rose Bush and Butterfly