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This is one of two studies held at BMAG for the legs of the poets in The Seeds and Fruits
of English Poetry. From the pose it is most likely to be for the legs of the poet Milton as
he appears in the left wing of the Ashmolean study (Fig. 1).
Cat. no. 23 Chaucer at the Court of Edward III: Study of a left Leg for Shakespeare,
1847
Black chalk; 313 x 122 mm
Insc. br.: Ford M Brown London
47
Lit.: Whitley, p. 32; Ford Madox Brown:
The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, p. 64
Prov.: Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P706)
Cat. no. 24 Chaucer at the Court
of Edward III: Study of Drapery for Milton, 1847
Black chalk; 355 x 200 mm
Insc.
br.: [F] M Brown London/47
Lit.: Whitley, p. 32; Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, p. 64
Prov.: Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P743)
Cat. no. 25 Chaucer at the Court of Edward III: Drapery Study for Shakespeare, 1847
Black chalk; 350 x 170 mm
Insc. br.: Ford M Brown London/47
Lit.: Whitley,
p. 32; Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, pp. 64-65
Prov.:
Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P707)
This drawing is for the figure
of Shakespeare who holds the masks of tragedy and
comedy, symbolising his work as a playwright.
Cat. no. 26 Chaucer at the Court
of Edward III: Study of a Man in a medieval Hood,
1847
Black
chalk; 209 x 170 mm
Insc. br.: Ford M Brown London/47
Lit.: Whitley, p. 35; Diary, p. 7
Exh.: Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite (12)
Prov.: Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P777)
The hood is based on an illustration of the Count of Flanders in J. R. Planché's A
Complete History of the Dress of the Inhabitants of the British Isles, published in 1834
and reprinted in 1847 and 1874. Brown copied the hood and liripipe from Planché onto a
sheet of tracing paper that is also in the Birmingham collection (cat. no. 59). Brown's
diary entry for 25 September 1847 may
well relate to this drawing: 'got up Early – & got
to work
late, fumbled till 12 o’clock over the Hood of the left hand corner figure of the
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