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The Entombment
(L’enselivissement)
1870-1878
- Medium
- watercolour, gouache, gold paint and gum arabic over pencil on 2 sheets of paper
- Measurements
- 94.1 × 112.2 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- England
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bennett A88.2
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown watercolour l.l.: F.M.B. (monogram) 71-78
- Accession Number
- 209-2
- Department
- International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1905
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Religion and Mythology
- Subjects (specific)
- Bible stories cloth Entombment of Christ (New Testament narrative) Joseph of Arimathea, Saint (Christian character) robes (main garments) tombs
- Movements
- Pre-Raphaelite
Frame
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The frame for Madox Brown’s The Entombment is carved in timber in a form referred to in Italy as Canaletto – in Great Britain more likely as a Lely frame. It is a much used form that allows ornament to be carved in relief at the corners – quite shallow and within the overall profile of the section. These are frames that present decorative corners but hold back in the scale and significance of the ornament.
This may not be the first framing of the work. - Framemaker
- Charles Rowley
Manchester - Date
- 1888-1897 (suggested by address on label)
- Materials
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carved timber and gold leaf.
- More Information
- National Portrait Gallery