Questions

1. How is Brown depicted in this painting? As a viewer of his “last moments” in this work, how would you remember him? Cite specific details to support your response.

   Question

   ALMF/kS1zzW73MouRsoXk1h0lKY=

   Questions: - How is Brown depicted in this painting? As a viewer of his “last moments” in this work, how would you remember him? Cite specific details to support your response.
2. What visual allusions do you find in the painting? What do they add to your interpretation?

   Question

   ALMF/kS1zzW73MouRsoXk1h0lKY=

   Questions: - What visual allusions do you find in the painting? What do they add to your interpretation?
3. Some believe that Thomas Hovenden read the following account that appeared in the New York Tribune on December 5, 1859:

   On leaving the Jail, John Brown had on his face an expression of calmness and serenity characteristic of the patriot who is about to die with a living consciousness that he is laying his life down for the good of his fellow-creatures… . As he stepped out of the door a black woman, with her little child in arms, stood near his way. The twain were of the despised race, for whose emancipation and elevation to the dignity of children of God, he was about to lay down his life… . He stopped for a moment in his course, stooped over, and, with the tenderness of one whose love is as broad as the brotherhood of man, kissed [the child] affectionately.

   Even though historians doubt that the account is accurate (for example, civilians, such as the woman and baby, were not allowed in the area of Brown’s hanging because of rumored plans for escape), how does Hovenden’s painting capture the tone of the description?

   Question

   ALMF/kS1zzW73MouRsoXk1h0lKY=

   Questions: - Some believe that Thomas Hovenden read the following account that appeared in the New York Tribune on December 5, 1859:On leaving the Jail, John Brown had on his face an expression of calmness and serenity characteristic of the patriot who is about to die with a living consciousness that he is laying his life down for the good of his fellow-creatures… . As he stepped out of the door a black woman, with her little child in arms, stood near his way. The twain were of the despised race, for whose emancipation and elevation to the dignity of children of God, he was about to lay down his life… . He stopped for a moment in his course, stooped over, and, with the tenderness of one whose love is as broad as the brotherhood of man, kissed [the child] affectionately.Even though historians doubt that the account is accurate (for example, civilians, such as the woman and baby, were not allowed in the area of Brown’s hanging because of rumored plans for escape), how does Hovenden’s painting capture the tone of the description?