Studies for 'The Echoes of Hellas': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'The Echoes of Hellas': Composition
Date: c.1882
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 34.4 x 27.1 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0807
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "K35" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "134" encircled, in black biro, crossed out in black biro, written upside down.

Interpretation

'The Echoes of Hellas'

Description

Upper half of sheet: faint study for the composition of the design 'The Echoes of Hellas' (c.1882, untraced). Lower half of sheet: full-length study for the group of three female figures to the left of the design. 

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 

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