The Ascension - Study for a Kneeling Apostle / Head of a Child1844 Accession number: 1906P695 Black chalk touched with white on brown paper. Width: 220 mm Height: 283 mm InformationIn 1844 Ford Madox Brown unsuccessfully submitted an oil sketch of 'The Ascension' to a competition for an altarpiece for the church of St James, Bermondsey. This is a study for the apostle on the far left, kneeling with his hands raised in prayer. On the other side is a sketch of a child possibly for 'The Spirit of Justice,' a cartoon Brown entered into the third competition to decorate the interior of the newly built Houses of Parliament in 1845. LM
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