Study for the Mural of the Sacrifice of Cain and Abel in Lady Waterford Hall, Ford Village, Northumberland
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1861 - 1862
Materials
Watercolour over pencil with some ink on paper
Measurements
176 x 253 mm
Place of origin
Ford
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434367
Summary
Watercolour over pencil with some ink on paper, Study for the mural of the Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, Lady Waterford Hall, Ford Village, Northumberland by Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), 1861/2. The picture is divided into two halves the top depicts the sacrifice, and the bottom gives a sketch of the wall in the school at Ford, where the finished mural is to be found. The scene is drawn within an arch shaped pencil frame. The right foreground is a chaotic area, although, as can be seen from later pictures, evidently intended as an altar covered with the sacrifices of meat and apples. Behind this stands a male figure, unloading items onto the table before him. To the left is a second male figure, kneeling, with his arms resting on the altar in the posture of prayer. The left quarter of the picture is full of undergrowth. Behind is mottled blue sky, and a few birds. The detail of the school wall shows a very rough sketch of the sacrifice mural, together with the frame, surrounds and medallions, which complete each piece. Part of the two flanking arches, together with the wooden brackets about which all the murals in the hall are fitted are also given.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Makers and roles
Louisa Anne Stuart, Marchioness of Waterford (Paris 1818 – Ford 1891), artist