The Ascension - Study of Angels and Hands
1844
Accession number: 1906P668
Brown pen and ink over pencil on paper.
Width: 178 mm
Height: 36 mm
Information
These 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Different sketches for a design of the Ascension Paris / Ford M Brown/44 | ||||
| Inscription | below image | Handwritten | 1844 | Brown ink. |
Literature
| Author(s) | Date(s) | Publisher | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Madox Brown: a Record of his Life and Work | |||
| Hueffer | 1896 | Longmans Green and Co., London | repr. p. 447 et seq. |
| City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings | |||
| A E Whitley | 1939 | Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby | p. 28 |
| \qjFord Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle | |||
| Ray Watkinson, Teresa Newman | 1991 | Chatto and Windus, London | pl. 22 |
| Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite | |||
| Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey | 2008 | D. Giles Limited, London | p. 64 |
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