Hope: Design for the Unexecuted Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough
John Michael Rysbrack
c. 1733
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper
Dimensions
9 × 5.4 cm (3 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83541
About the Artist
John Michael Rysbrack · 1694–1770
John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) was the foremost sculptor working in Britain during the first half of the eighteenth century, a Flemish-born master whose elegant synthesis of Baroque energy and classical restraint dominated English sculptural patronage for decades. Born in Antwerp into a family with artistic connections, he trained in the traditions of Flemish sculpture before arriving in London...