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This second early compositional study for 'Chaucer at the Court of Edward III' is slightly more finished than the other compositional study in the collection (1906P680), although the trefoil arch is less drawn in. This suggests that it is a slightly later study. Already there are substantial differences between this drawing and the previous one. John of Gaunt is still on the left but looks less animated with his arm resting on his hip as opposed to raised in the air. There are two extra figures on the far left hand side one of which, the man in the medieval hood, can be seen in the final painting. Brown also made significant changes on the right. He included a jester which can be seen in all subsequent compositions though not in the same position. Interestingly the costume of the cleric depicted in this, and the drawing above, appears to have been based on tracing Brown took from Costume Historique, an historical sourcebook by Camille Bonnard (see 1906P737, 1906P738 and 1906P739). However, this figurelater changed into a cardinal (see 1906P780). In the left hand corner above the trefoil arch is a pencil sketch of the head of child in profile to the right. This may have been Brown's first daughter Lucy who would have been two in 1845.LM
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Ford Madox Brown |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
[F] M Brown Rome/45 |
Signature and date |
bottom left |
Handwritten |
1845 |
F cut off.. Brown ink. |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown |
190 (?) |
Grafton Galleries, London |
1897 - 1897 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
43 |
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London |
1947-09 - 1947-09 |
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Some Pictures from Birmingham by British Artists |
40 |
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
1956 - 1956 |
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Ford Madox Brown |
51 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
1964 - 1964 |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
7 |
Seattle Art Museum |
1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 |
7 |
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 |
7 |
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 |
7 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 |
7 |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 |
7 |
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery |
1996-05-26 - 1996-09-29 |
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Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite |
7 |
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery |
2008-08-27 - 2008-12-14 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Ford Madox Brown: a Record of his Life and Works |
F M Hueffer |
1896 |
Longmans Green and Co., London |
repr. p. 447 et seq. |
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Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown |
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1897 |
Grafton Galleries, London |
p. 49 |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby |
p. 31 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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1947 |
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London |
p. 12 |
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The Nazarenes |
Keith Andrews |
1954 |
Oxford University Press, Oxford |
p. 81; repr. pl. 72b |
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Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England |
Stephen Wildman |
1995 |
Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia |
p. 84, repr. p. 85 |
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Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite History-Picture |
Lucy Rabin |
1978 |
Garland Publishing, New York and London |
p. 98; repr. pl. 44 |
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Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite |
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey |
2008 |
D. Giles Limited, London |
pp. 50, 64; repr. p. 42 |
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