Study for an illustration for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Eliezer and Rebekah', Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for an illustration for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery': 'Eliezer and Rebekah', Composition
Date: 1863-64
Media: Pencil and brown wash
Dimensions: 17.5 x 14.9 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0850
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "6 5/4/x/5 9/12" in pencil. Inscribed lower centre "Browngray" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "4229" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "14 x 12 1/2 8r" in pencil. Inscribed lower edge "41215 [L/1215?] nice [illegible] ruled not

Interpretation

This is the only known watercolour relating to one of Leighton's illustrations for the 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery', which suggests that Leighton may have considered using the composition for an oil painting.

Description

Study for the composition of the illustration 'Eliezer and Rebekah' for 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery' (published 1880-81). The image is severely faded as a result of light damage, except for a thin border which has been covered by a mount. 

 

Bibliography

• Gaunt, William (introduction), 'High Victorian Art: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the York Art Gallery', Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, 1969, p.33, catalogue number 149 

Exhibition history

• 1969, 'High Victorian Art: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the York Art Gallery', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 149
• c.1990, 'Display of the Leighton House Drawings Collection in the Lower Perrin Gallery', Leighton House Museum, London, catalogue number 13

Reproductions

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