spencer's original plan for realising this vision would have required a canvas some fifty feet wide. appreciating that this was impractical, he instead embarked on a series of paintings of various sizes. the two largest of these, "resurrection: the hill of sion" and "resurrection: port glasgow", at some twenty-two feet long each, matched the scale of his original vision. these were supplemented by a series of triptychs, "reunion", "rejoicing", "waking up" and "the raising of jairus' daughter" plus two smaller pieces. a number of additional panels for some of the triptychs were planned but never completed. spencer wanted the entire series displayed together, but each piece was sold to a different collector or gallery. "resurrection: port glasgow" was exhibited with the "shipbuilding on the clyde" series for the first time in 2000 to great acclaim.