Studies for 'Elijah in the Wilderness': Wings of Angel

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Elijah in the Wilderness': Wings of Angel
Date: c.1877
Media: Black chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 23.5 x 28.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0517
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "[illegible]" in pencil. Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "L4" in pencil.

Description

Left of sheet: study for the left wing of the angel in the painting 'Elijah in the Wilderness' (c.1878, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool). Just to the lower right of this is a study for the tip of the same wing. Right of sheet: study for the right wing of the angel in the same painting. Just to the lower right of this is a study for the tip of the same wing. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (n+e Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (n+e Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896; collection of Leighton House Museum 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.160 (listed under catalogue number 193) 

Exhibition history

• Inscribed on reverse, centre "193" in blue biro, crossed out in black biro. Inscribed on reverse, upper left "517" encircled, in blue biro