The Ascension - Drapery Study for a praying Apostle / The Spirit of Justice - Seated Figure in ecclesiastical Robes, gripping Staff with left Hand raised in Blessing1843 – 1845 Accession number: 1906P752 Black chalk on paper. Width: 185 mm Height: 233 mm InformationIn 1844 Ford Madox Brown submitted an oil sketch of 'The Ascension' to a competition to design an altarpiece for the church of St James, Bermondsey, South London. This is a study for one of the apostles in the picture. Unfortunately, he did not win the competition and the commission went to the little known artist John Wood (1801-1877). On the other side is a drapery study for 'The Spirit of Justice,' a large cartoon that Brown was also working on in 1844. He entered this design in the third of a series of fresco competitions to decorate the interior of the newly rebuilt Houses of Parliament in 1845. The drapery study is for the bishop on the left of the composition. In the final cartoon the ecclesiastical robes have been considerabley altered. Only fragments of the cartoon survive one of which is now at Manchester Art Gallery.LM
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