The Ascension - Study of Angels and Hands1844 Accession number: 1906P668 Brown pen and ink over pencil on paper. Width: 178 mm Height: 36 mm InformationThese studies are for the angels who direct Christ to heaven in Brown's oil sketch 'The Ascension.' As the drawing style indicates Brown was influenced by work produced by Fuseli and his circle in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when producing this competition entry. In these drawings both angels are shown with wings which were later omitted in the painting. LM
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