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Text with landscape silhouette and designs for an emblem: 859.f.5

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Text with landscape silhouette and designs for an emblem
Sketch of a leaf table with right-hand leaf folded down

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Brown, Ford Madox

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1917) by Murray, Charles Fairfax

Dating

Not before 1870 - 1875

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Page Size Height 139 mm Width 229 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Graphite on paper

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: from left to right, text vertical on page; continued from 859.4.verso

  • Text: rooms gratis on a broad assumption of / free trade principles generally. / Digression on the relation of the fine / arts one to another - as tendency(?) to elucidate / the questions as to their progress & perfectibility / music - especially - Eclecticism of a / new kind. The only principle, no reason for stopping short at points where former giants / reposed. Tendency in the choice of / subjects in France & England. Affectation / of refinement in England Story of the / Sailor - influence of hanging Committees / The moral of horrible subjects & events / Salombôo. Regnault's Salome. / Gustaf Dorés Bible as style / Deterioration of task as compared / with Overbeck.
  • Location: Recto, left-hand three quarters of the page
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: Bam Vancoulems 1412. / Father Jacques D'asc Mother J(?) sabellette / Garden touching busiest ground Romée
  • Location: Verso, left
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 859.f.5
Primary reference Number: 9345
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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