St Theophilus and the Angel - Study of a Mourner1863 – 1867 Accession number: 1904P175 Pencil with touches of brown chalk on cream-toned paper, laid down. Width: 117 mm Height: 271 mm InformationOne of a number of studies in Birmingham's collection for the mourners who carry St Dorothea in the watercolour entitled 'Theophilus and the Angel'. Two versions of the painting were made, one was destroyed in the second world war (1863), the other (c.1866) was sold at Sotheby's in 2008.This sketch is of a particularly young mourner, when compared with the other facial types of the other mourner studies.
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