Study for Decorative Panels for Longford Hall, Greater Manchester: Location and Compositions

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Drawing details

Title: Study for Decorative Panels for Longford Hall, Greater Manchester: Location and Compositions
Date: 1895-96
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 28.0 x 36.8 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0846
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper left "[illegible] / Dawn - birds awakening / [illegible] - morning - morning / star / infancy tender colours / hope spring flowers". Inscribed upper left centre "crossed Summer / Noon [two illegible words] / intense colours - lovers /

Description

Study of four panels of an interior wall. Each main panel has a smaller panel below. Just right of centre is a narrow pillar. The first two main panels contain lightly sketched standing female figures. The figure in the far left panel holds both hands away from the body at shoulder height. 

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

• Barrington, Mrs. Emilie Isabel, 'Catalogue: Lord Leighton's House and What it Contains', 1900, reprinted as part of 'A Collection of Essays on Lord Leighton and his Works with Illustrated Catalogue of the Contents of Leighton House', privately published, London, 1900-01, p.195 catalogue number 336
• Phillips Exhibition Catalogue, 21 November 1988, text under catalogue number 79
• Gere, Charlotte, et al., 'A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton', Royal Borough of Kensington and Che 

Exhibition history

• 09 April 1900 to at least 1936, 'The Leighton House Collection' (intended to be a permanent display), Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 336 (exhibited but not hung)
• 08 November 2006 to 25 February 2007, 'A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 6.4

Reproductions

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