Chaucer at the Court of Edward III - Tracing of a Gothic Arch and Heads of FiguresBy Ford Madox Brown, Frederick Sandys 1845 – 1849 Accession number: 1906P1072 Pen and black ink on tracing paper. Width: 214 mm Height: 240 mm InformationThis is a tracing of the Gothic arch found in one of the early compositional studies for the painting 'Chaucer at the Court of Edward III' in the Birmingham collection (1906P680). There is another tracing for the same compositon in the collection (1906P1071). This suggests that Brown was using tracings to transfer various elements of the composition onto different preparatory studies and sketches. However, there are no pencil marks or pricks on the tracing paper which might indicate that he may have used the tracings as reference copies whilst working on several studies. The heads which Brown has loosely added within the arch do not match the figures found in 1906P680. This futher indicates that he made multiple compositonal studies.LM
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