John Glover

1767 - 1849

The Colosseum

Grisaille
10 x 16.8 cm
Exhibited: Royal Society of British Artists, London,1825, as The Coliseum [sic], no. 533, (Drawing, wc or min.); Mr. Stanley Auctioneers, 21 Old Bond St, London, A Catalogue of all the finished drawings in water colours of John Glover, 18th May, 1830, Lot 33, as The Coliseum [sic], (Watercolour Drawings in the portfolio); Thos Agnew & Sons Ltd., 43 Old Bond St, Piccadilly, London, no. 20105

Grisaille
A grisaille is a painting which has been executed in monochrome (i.e. one colour) or in a very limited range of colour, but in which the forms are defined by variations of tone.

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