Study for 'Rizpah': Drapery and Pitcher

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Rizpah': Drapery and Pitcher
Date: c.1892
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 26.8 x 36.7 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0729
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower centre "Rizpah" in pencil. Stamped upper right "LLC" encircled, in black ink, sideways. Inscribed on reverse, centre "H50" encircled, upside down, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "21/-" upside down, in pencil. Inscribed on rev

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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

• Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander, 'The Royal Academy Exhibition - I', 'The Magazine of Art', 1893, illustrated on p.217
• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.172 (listed under catalogue number 376)