2 | A&AePortal

Image details

Description: Chaucer at the Court of Edward III

TitleChaucer at the Court of Edward III

Creator nameBrown, Ford Madox

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1847–1851

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/703/

Accession number703

SubjectsPre-RaphaelitesPainting, British--19th centuryPoets in artPainting, Victorian--Great Britain

Related content: Chapters (2) Images (11)

Select a chapter below to view this image within the text.

I. Art, Religion, and Labour

Tim Barringer

Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain

A CHAOS OF BODIES, male and female, young and old, confronts the viewer of Ford Madox Brown’s great secular altarpiece, Work (fig. 8), just as the language of the body permeates the sonnet published to accompany its first exhibition. The setting is the elegant suburban prospect of The Mount,...

Author

Tim Barringer

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.21-81

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23837&redirecttoanchor=93436

Chapter subject tags:Painting, Victorian--Great BritainBrown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893Pre-RaphaelitesLabor in art--Great Britain--History--19th centuryVisual culture--History--19th centuryPainting, British--19th century

1847

Virginia Surtees (Editor)

The Diary of Ford Madox Brown

As the work I am at present engaged upon is the most extensive as well as the most interesting to myself of any that I have yet undertaken I shall begin in this book by a short retrospectary glance at the events which have led to my undertaking it...

Author

Virginia Surtees (Editor)

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.1-22

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00350.1

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23538&redirecttoanchor=93436

Chapter subject tags:Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893Artists--DiariesPainting, British--19th century

Loading Images

Note: Some of the images of artworks presented on this platform were not sourced from the original print publication. However, in order to preserve the scholarly record of the print publication, all original image captions and credit lines have been retained on the platform. Learn more about our image policies.