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This drawing is a study for the toddler sitting on the knees of the Madonna in the cartoon 'Oure Ladye of Saturday night.' The child sits with crossed legs, almost completely facing the viewer. There are two further studies of the child's left leg on the same sheet and on the reverse is a frieze design in black ink which Mary Bennett has identified as the the border of the tent in Lear and Cordelia (Tate).LM

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Ford Madox Brown -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
F.MB./47
Signature and date bottom right Handwritten 1847 Brown ink
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery p. 38
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey 2008 D. Giles Limited p. 68

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