Study for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figure Winding Skein, Mother and Child

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Captive Andromache': Female Figure Winding Skein, Mother and Child
Date: c.1887
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 27.2 x 37.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0676
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink, lower half cut off by edge of sheet. Inscribed lower right "Andromache" in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "216" encircled, in black biro, crossed out in black biro. Inscribed on reverse, centre

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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.169 (listed under catalogue number 334)