Studies

Studies

Ford Madox Brown (1821 - 1893)

Date: 1843-1844
Dimensions:
457 x 400 mm
Medium: Black chalk on paper
Object number: GA0493
Description(Recto) Two hands clutching staff, possibly for man in death grapple at far left, or for Harold; arm and hand stretched out with curled fingers, probably for wounded soldier in foreground; intertwined arms, possibly for William's left arm and part of soldier behind; fragment: tips of fingers of a hand.
(Verso) Study for the monk bandaging a soldier's leg; his left hand.

482-493. Studies are survivors of a set of 36 originally at the gallery. The remaining 14 were damaged beyond repair during 1939-45 war