View of the Bay of Salamis

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Drawing details

Title: View of the Bay of Salamis
Date: 1867
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 17.1 x 21.6 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0909
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Bay of Salamis" in pencil, in the artist's hand. Inscribed lower right "Bay of Salamis" in pencil.

Interpretation

Salamis is an island just off the coast of Greece, the closest island to Athens. This study was drawn in 1867 when Leighton visited the Greek islands and remarked in a letter "I have painted no figures...time only sufficed for my landscape studies". [Barrington, Mrs. Russell, 'The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic, Lord Leighton', George Allen, London, 1906, volume I, p.131]

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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 (Fine Art Society reference number ?); purchased from the Fine Art Society by the Leighton Fund for ú3:3:0; presented to Leighton House Museum in 1899. 

Bibliography

• Anon., 'Catalogue of Drawings by the late Lord Leighton Preserved for the Nation', Leighton House Committee, 1897, catalogue number 17 "Landscapes"
• 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.165, catalogue number 33b 

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 33b (exhibited in the Silk Room)