Studies for 'Composition showing Soldiers and Demons at a Shrine': Composition

Drawing details

Title: Studies for 'Composition showing Soldiers and Demons at a Shrine': Composition
Date: c.1845
Media: Pencil and watercolour on white paper
Dimensions: 13.2 x 21.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1135 p.35

Interpretation

There is a more finished study for this early composition at Leighton House Museum (reference number LHO/D/0866) and another study on the previous page of this sketchbook.

Description

Page from a sketchbook. Study for the composition for 'Study for a Composition showing Soldiers and Demons at a Shrine' (c.1845, Leighton House Museum, reference number LHO/D/0866). The drawing is squared up. There are also child0like doodles along the right edge of the sheet. 

Provenance

Collection of Coghlan Briscoe; presented to Leighton House Museum by Briscoe in 1930 

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