drawing
- Museum number
- 1888,0503.44
- Description
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Faith - for a monument to the Hon Mrs James Stuart Wortley Mackenzie, Yorkshire; woman seated to left, looking up from book, positioned in niche framed by Gothic arch
Pen and grey ink and grey wash
- Production date
- 1755-1826
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres
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Width: 176 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Flaxman adapted the figure of a mourning female in a number of his funeral monuments, setting it against a variety of backgrounds and introducing props to signify different qualities. The monument to the Baring family, for example, has a similarly seated and attired figure as the central focus, though facing left and with hands joined in prayer rather than holding a Bible. See 1888,0503.39 for a preparatory drawing for the Baring monument.
From David Bindman, 'John Flaxman, 1755-1826: Master of the Purest Line' (Sir John Soane's Museum and University College London, 2003) p. 49:
This study is possibly connected with the monument for Mrs James Stuart Wortley Mackenzie (d. 1808) at Wortley Church, Yorkshire, though in the drawing the figure is set against interlacing and pointed arches, while in the monument it is set against round columns surmounted by a round trefoil arch.
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1979 April-June, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 'Flaxman', no. 134
1979 July-Sep, Thorwaldsen Museum, 'Flaxman', no. 134
1979 Oct-Dec, London, Royal Academy, 'Flaxman', no. 134
2003 April-June, London, Strang Print Room, 'John Flaxman, 1755-1826: master of the Purest Line'.
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1888,0503.44