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A Spirit Ascending
A Spirit Ascending
A Spirit Ascending
A Spirit Ascending

Image credit: Sir John Soane’s Museum

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A sketch model for the monument to Agnes Cromwell (d.1797) in Chichester Cathedral. There is another plaster sketch model for this monument titled 'Come thou Blessed' in the Flaxman collection at University College London which was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts under the title 'Come thou Blessed: A marble bas-relief' in 1800. There are related drawings in the British Museum. In the Rosenwald Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, is a pencil drawing by Flaxman which is catalogued as possibly for the Agnes Cromwell monument.

The Cromwell monument was an extremely influential work, with the motif of the spirit ascending imitated by almost all major British sculptors over the next 50 years – usually on monuments to women.

Sir John Soane’s Museum

London

Title

A Spirit Ascending

Date

1798

Medium

plaster

Measurements

H 51 x W 27 x D 2 cm

Accession number

M1077

Acquisition method

acquired by Sir John Soane, before 1837

Work type

Relief

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