Sketchbook
1793/94
Medium
Book with eleven graphite drawings on cream wove paper, bound in colored marble paperboard cover with brown leather spine and gold stamps
Dimensions
Closed: 15 × 24.5 × 0.8 cm (5 15/16 × 9 11/16 × 3/8 in.); Open: 15 × 48.9 × 0.8 cm (5 15/16 × 19 5/16 × 3/8 in.)
Classification
sketchbook
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11883
About the Artist
George Romney · 1734–1802
George Romney (1734–1802) was a British portrait painter who, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, formed the triumvirate of great English portraitists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, he received his early training from the itinerant portrait painter Christopher Steele before moving to London in 1762. Romney quickly establishe...