Title:
Study of a Female Figure with a Book Date:
1854-59 Media:
Pencil on white paper Dimensions:
23.9 x 19.0 cm Location: Leighton House Museum Picture credit:
Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Reference number:
LHO/D/1139 p.136 Inscriptions:
None
Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Full-length study of a seated female figure, turned to the left. The feet are parted and the hands hold a book in the lap. The figure is elderly and wears a smock and ankle books.
Collection of Adelaide Sartoris (ne+ Kemble, opera singer, writer and society hostess, 1814-1879); sold through the Maas Gallery (art dealers) in 1969; purchased by Leighton House Museum in 1969
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