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1849-1849 | WOA 2967
A scene set within a gold and stone arch, showing a white female figure robed in white and with a blue and gold cape, holding scales in her right hand. She is surrounded on the left and right by two winged white female figures, the one on the left with her hands clasped and the one on the right holding a sword with the handle at the top facing downwards and wearing body armour. On the right, a lightly bearded man in a green tunic and brown hat with a green leaf holds out a bloodied dagger towards the central figure of Justice. On the left, several figures bow their heads before her, one in armour with a helmet, another a woman in full white clothing including her head, who holds a young child. At the bottom left, below her, another young child looks up. On the bottom right, Black man wearing a robe of blue, red, and white over his left shoulder, with a large earring in his right ear, kneels with his head facing the ground. In front of him are a pair of shackles on the marble floor. Above him, a white man in a green tunic holds a manuscript to his chest and looks up towards Justice. Other figures look on in the far right and left. The scene is surrounded by large gothic stone arches and some details on the left and right, at their base, of gilded and painted heraldic shields.
Spirit of Justice
Daniel Maclise, painter1849-1849 | WOA 2967
Details
- Collection
- Parliamentary Art Collection
- Object type
- Mural
- Description
- Spirit of Justice, Mural by Daniel Maclise. Fresco painting.
- Date Created
- 1849
- Creator
- Daniel Maclise (1806-1870), painter
- Production details
- Date painted 1849
- Dimensions
- Object Width 112.5inch
- Object Height 196.5inch
- Materials
- Tempera
- Plaster
- Fresco
- Technique
- Fresco painting
- Tempera mural painting
Copyright
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- Image copyright
- UK Parliament
- Object copyright
- Out of copyright
- Image Credit
- Spirit of Justice Mural by Daniel Maclise ©UK Parliament WOA 2967