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instructor to demonstrate the muscular bodies of the models. Working-class men were
sought for these models as their strenuous jobs provided them with toned bodies
resembling classical sculptures. Props were often used to aid poses and add interest. In
cat. no. 98 the model holds a chisel and hammer,
feigning the guise of an ancient
sculptor, a witty device, as the man becomes both artist and model. The instruments he
holds make a balanced composition; the chisel shows off the model's arm muscles and the
position of the hammer highlights his buttocks.
hese
ng place.
omas came in & with Lucy we went to
ickinson’s academy [sic], Madox [sic] Street. Saw Foley there & Paris & Saulter.' 153
Several entries in Brown's diary relate to the time he spent at life drawing classes. T
were attended by a large number of artists and must have become a social meeti
On 11 January 1848 he recorded that ‘Th
D
Despite Brown's academic training he appears to have felt the need to attend such
lessons. The following day he wrote a frustrated entry in his diary:
drew all day at the canvas. Lucy came to go to Dickinson’s with me, found I
was making my figures of Chaucer and Gower [for Wycliffe reading his
Translation of the Bible] to [sic] short, quite took me aback. Went & began a
pencil drawing at Dickinson’s walked home with Lucy, came back and
bought a bottle of wiskey [sic] to drown care with. 154
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Cat.
no. 100 Morris & Company revised Index: Catalogue of Stained Glass Cartoons by
Edward Burne Jones, Ford Madox Brown,
William Morris, Philip Webb, Simeon
Solomon, Arthur
Hughes etc, 1900 - 1940
Pen and ink with pencil annotations, small photo inserts, and pen and ink drawings;
325 x 215mm
Insc.
handwritten front cover: Revised/ Glass Cartoon Index,
inside front cover: Morris
and Company
/ 449 Oxford Street London W
Lit.: Hidden Burne-Jones, exh. cat., BMAG, 2007, p. 76; Ford Madox Brown: The
Unofficial
Pre-Raphaelite, p. 67
Presented anonymously, 1940 (1940P604.4)
153
Op. cit. at note 2, p. 24. J. H. Foley (1818-1874) was a sculptor, E. T. Parris (1793-1873) was a painter
who invented a fresco-like medium, and W. Saulter (1804-1875) was an historical painter.
154
Ibid., p. 25.
260