Cleveland Museum of Art
Woman Standing among the Friars (recto) Sketches of Heads (verso, left); Two Women (verso, right)
John Brown (British, 1752–1787) · c. 1770–75
John Brown meant for the dark background of this drawing to evoke the potential danger of Italian nights; the writer Johann Joachim Winckelmann had been murdered in Trieste in 1768, in the most conspicuous example of the period's widespread violence.
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