Studies of Doves and a Rose Bush

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Drawing details

Title: Studies of Doves and a Rose Bush
Date: 1850-60
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 27.4 x 20.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1011
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left corner "T rose. E." in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, centre "M25" encircled, in pencil. Inscribed on reverse, lower centre "325" encircled, in blue biro, crossed out in blue biro.

Interpretation

The pigeon or dove to the upper right of the sheet, is similar to the pigeon puffing up its chest to the lower right of the painting 'A Girl Feeding Peacocks' (1863, untraced), however it faces in the opposite direction. There are also several pigeons depicted in the painting 'Summer Slumber' (c.1894, private collection) and doves and roses are both depicted in the painting 'Cupid and Dove' (1870's, untraced).

Description

Upper half of sheet: eleven studies of doves or pigeons. Lower half of sheet: study of part of a rose plant with buds and flowers.