Study for an Illustration 'A Musical Instrument': 'The Great God Pan', Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for an Illustration 'A Musical Instrument': 'The Great God Pan', Composition
Date: c.1859
Media: Black chalk and watercolour
Dimensions: 18.1 x 10.3 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0857
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink.

Description

Study for the composition of the illustration 'The Great God Pan' for the poem 'A Musical Instrument' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (published in the 'Cornhill Magazine' in July 1860. 

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.194 catalogue number 319
• Staley, Edgcumbe, 'Lord Leighton of Stretton, P.R.A.', The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London, 1906, p.222 

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 319 (exhibited on large screen in glass studio)