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This is one of many carefully observed drapery studies by Brown in the collection. The folds of the cardinal's robe are highly finished but the absence of the figure's hands and face suggest that he used a lay figure instead of a model. A lay figure would have had the advantages of being cheaper than a professional model and would have kept the fabric completely still. In the two early compositional studies from 1845 (1906P680 and 1906P681) this figure is an archbishop but later on Brown alters the cleric to a cardinal. 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
Ford M Brown London 47
Signature and date bottom left Handwritten 1847 Brown ink.
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings & Drawings
7 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1955-07 - 1955-08
7 Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea 1955-10 - 1955-10
 
Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893
53 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1964 - 1964
 

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 Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby p.36
 
Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings & Drawings
1955 Arts Council of Great Britain, Welsh Committee p. 8
 
Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893
Mary Bennett 1964 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool p. 29
 
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite
Laura MacCulloch, Tessa Sidey 2008 D. Giles Limited, London p. 65

Associated people

Name Type
Geoffrey Chaucer -
King Edward III -

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