LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk on buff paper

Size Notes:

27 x 19.875 in. (68.6 x 50.5 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of the Works of Ford Madox Brown, 1896-1897, no. 147. London, The Maas Gallery, The Raphaelites and their Contemporaries, 1962, no. 8. Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, A Pre-Raphaelite Passion. The Private Collection of L.S. Lowry, 1 April - 31 May 1977, no. 18. Salford, The Lowry, Lowry and the Pre-Raphaelites, 10 November 2018 - 24 February 2019, no. 17.

Literature:

F.M. Heuffer, Ford Madox Brown. A record of his life and work, London, 1896, p. 446. A.C. Sewter, 'A Check-list of Designs for Stained Glass by Ford Madox Brown', William Morris Society Journal, II, no. 2, 1968, p. 20. A.C. Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris & his Circle, I, London, 1974, pl. 378, and II, 1975, p. 89. M. Bennett, Ford Madox Brown, A Catalogue Raisonn, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 513, no. C177.

Provenance:

with Charles Rowley, Manchester, 1878. Given by the artist to the Horsfall Museum, December 1878, but later exchanged for a drawing of Madeleine Scott. William Michael Rossetti, by 1897. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1962, lot 15 (bt Maas). with J.S. Maas, London. Rodney Todd White. with Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1967, where purchased by L.S. Lowry, and by descent.