Study for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Death of the First Born', Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Death of the First Born', Composition
Date: 1863-64
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.4 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0484
Inscriptions: None

Interpretation

There are three very similar tracings for this illustration at Leighton House Museum (see also LHO/D/0855 and LHO/D/1139A.

Description

Tracing for the composition of the illustration 'Death of the First Born' for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery' (published 1880-81). This is an entirely different composition to the finished illustration. 

Provenance

Acquired by Leighton House Museum before 1926