Study for 'Tragic Poetess': Drapery

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Tragic Poetess': Drapery
Date: c.1889
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 36.8 x 27.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0690

Interpretation

This drawing was illustrated as one of the 'Pictures of the Year' in 'The Graphic' in 1890. Normally the pictures of the year were oil paintings.

Description

Drapery study for the female figure in the painting 'Tragic Poetess' (1890, private collection). 

 

Bibliography

• The Graphic', Volume 42, 02 August 1890, illustrated
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.170 (listed under catalogue number 352)