ford madox brown - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

well refer to this sheet of drawings: '31st [May 1848] up at 1/1 past 5, Worked at study
from Mendoes at 1/2 past 9 till 1/2 past 6. Drew at 4 hands from Fry the Model.' 63
Cat. no. 48 Chaucer at the Court of Edward III: Study of a clasped right Hand for one of
the
Poets, 1848
Black chalk; 214 x 103 mm
Insc. br.:
Ford M Brown London 48
Lit.: Whitley, p. 33; Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, p. 65
Prov.: Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P748)
This may be a study for the right
hand of one of the poets honoured by Brown in The
Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry. It is difficult
to tell if it is a hand study for the figure
of
Burns or Shakespeare as both have similar right hand positions in the surviving studies
for the triptych held
at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery (Fig. 77) and the Ashmolean (Figs.
1 and 116). It could also be a hand study for the man standing on the right of the Fool in
Brown's painting Lear and Cordelia (Fig. 37) on which he was also working in 1848.
Cat. no. 49 Chaucer at the Court of Edward
III: Study of a left Hand for Burns, 1848
Black chalk heightened with touches of white; 119 x 200 mm
Insc. br.: Ford M Brown London/48
Lit.: Whitley, p. 33; Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, p. 65
Prov.:
Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P747)
Cat. no. 50 Chaucer at the Court of Edward III: Study of Drapery for Burns, 1848
Black chalk; 289 x 165 mm
Insc.
br.: Ford M Brown London/48
Lit.: Whitley, p. 33
Exh.: Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite (18)
Prov.: Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P745)
See cat. no. 21.
Cat. no. 51 Chaucer at
the Court of Edward III: Drapery Study, 1848
Black chalk; 105 x 116 mm
Insc. br.: London / Ford M Brown/48
Lit.:
Whitley, p. 36; Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, p. 65
Prov.: Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented by Subscribers, 1906 (1906P781)
It is unclear to which figure this drapery study relates. The fall of the fabric does not fit
any of the clothing worn by figures in the finished painting or in the studies for the
abandoned triptych. It may have been a drapery study for one of the elements discarded
63 Op. cit. at note 2, p. 42. Mendoes was another model.
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