Sculpture - Study of a Statue of the 'Discobolus'1845 Accession number: 1906P718 Black chalk on paper. Width: 254 mm Height: 435 mm InformationFord Madox Brown reached Rome on 3 October 1845. He travelled to Italy for the health of his first wife Elisabeth who was ill with tuberculosis. As this drawing shows he was extremely impressed by classical sculpture and made this drawing of a Discobolus (Discophoros). It is a Roman copy of a fifth century BC Greek statue of which there are versions at the Louvre, the British Museum and the Vatican. In this drawing Brown has omitted the tree stump which is behind the figure in the original sculpture. LM
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