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Cat. no. 93 Lyra Germanica - the Christian Life: Finished Design for The Entombment,
1867
Black pen and ink; 263 x 234 mm (i.) 264 x 240 mm (p.)
Insc. in black ink br.: F. M. B. [monogram]
Lit.: Whitley, p. 44; Sewter, vol. 2, p. 78; The Pre-Raphaelites, 1984, p. 215;
Pre-Raphaelites: Painters and Patrons in the North East, exh. cat., Laing Art Gallery,
1989, p. 61
Exh.: Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite (45)
Prov.: Public Picture Gallery Fund
Presented by the Trustees of the Public Picture Gallery Fund, 1916 (1916P27)
This is the finished drawing for the engraving. The scene depicts Christ's shrouded body,
ith head and torso visible, being carried into his tomb by St. John the Evangelist and
em whilst Mary Magdalene kneels in the bottom left corner. The original design for
be
as another Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and
es from the life of Christ and other partners in the firm
f Brown's
but the date of the window is confirmed by Warrington
by the company between 1863 and 1868 (a
opy of this is among the Morris and Co. papers at BMAG). 142 w
Nicodemus. Joseph of Arimathea, St. Mary Altera and the Virgin Mary stand behind
140
th
The Entombment was used in one of the lights in the chancel window of Gatcom
Church on the Isle of Wight.
Brown depicted a similar
141 The window w
Co. commission. It depicted scen
designed the remaining lights. The cartoon was not mentiond in the extracts o
accounts published by Hueffer
Taylor's list of places with windows made
c
Jesus in 1873 in his cartoon for The Flagellation, one of the lights in the South Transept
window of Jesus College Cambridge. 143 The face of this Christ has the same split beard,
crown of thorns and expression of pain.
Cat. no. 94 Lyra Germanica - the Christian Life: The Entombment, pub. 1868
Wood-engraving; 107 x 95 mm (i.) 238 x 170
mm (p.)
Insc.
printed on image br.: FMB [monogram], printed below image bl.: T. Bolton Sc
Lit.: Cathrerine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica - the Christian Life, 1868, p. 38; Hueffer,
pp. 221, ill. p.
222; Eric de Maré, The Victorian Illustrators, 1980, p. 113; The Pre-
Raphaelites, 1984, p. 215; Pocket
Cathedrals, p. 15, 104; Victorian Illustration, pp. 10,
365; Suriano, pp. 64,
306, ill. p. 66; Laura MacCulloch, 'Forgotten Images: The
Illustrations of Ford Madox Brown' in Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-
Raphaelite, p. 36
Exh.: Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial
Pre-Raphaelite (46)
Prov.: Charles Fairfax Murray
Presented
by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1912 (1912P51)
The illustration is almost the same as the stained glass design with the inclusion of the
names of the figures present within the nimbuses in the illustration. In 1883 Brown
140
Mary Bennett in op. cit. at note 59, p. 215. She explains that 'the third female is the one known in the
holy story as St. Mary Altera literally the other Mary.'
141
Op. cit. at note 138, vol. 1, pl. 252,
vol. 2, p. 78,
142
Ibid., vol. 2, p. 78.
143
Ibid., vol. 1, pl. 427,
vol. 2, p. 43.
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