Study for 'The Last Watch of Hero': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Last Watch of Hero': Composition
Date: c.1886
Media: Oil paint and black chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 16.5 x 10.1 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0661

Description

Rough colour study for the composition of the painting 'The Last Watch Hero' (c.1887, Manchester Art Gallery). 

Provenance

collection of Leighton House Museum 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.169 (listed under catalogue number 330)