Daniel Maclise
Artwork Detail
This is a fully realised, preparatory sketch for Maclise's fresco in the House of Lords, London, and shows the personification of Justice between Mercy and Retribution, with Lay and Ecclesiastical Judges below. On the right a murderer is constrained by his accuser, who grasps the offending weapon, and on the left an armed knight throws down a gauntlet on behalf of the victim's widow and children. In the fore-ground an emancipated slave and a free citizen kneel. The painting represents the humanitarian ideals of the period.
- Title
- The Spirit of Justice
- Artist/creator
- Daniel Maclise
- Production date
- 1850
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 2591 x 1524 mm
- Credit line
- Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of James Tannock Mackelvie, 1881
- Accession no
- M1881/1/1
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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