Artist:
Formerly attributed to Leighton, Lord, Frederic (1830-1896), Baron of Stretton, P.R.A., painter and sculptor Title:
View of a Castle, Austria Date:
1852-55 Media:
Pencil and watercolour on white paper Dimensions:
41.0 x 29.5 cm Location:
Leighton House Museum Picture credit:
Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Reference number:
LHO/D/0437 p.30 Inscriptions:
Inscribed lower right "Rauenstein" in pencil, possibly in the artist's hand.
Page from a sketchbook. View of a landscape and ruined castle. The ground rises steeply from left to right. In the centre is a pathway leading through the delapidated tower of the fortification. A man stands on the pathway in front of the tower with a goat. A second taller tower rises behind the first.