Study of a Male and Two Female Figures

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Drawing details

Title: Study of a Male and Two Female Figures
Date: c.1854-59
Media: Pen and ink 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.23 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed left and right side "Oh mother of May / remember I pray / the gunpowder / patty and / plot / what'er you may eat / in Wimpole Street / let that never / be forgot!" in brown ink, in the artist's hand.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Caricature of Leighton, Mrs. Sartoris and May Sartoris. 

Provenance

Collection of Adelaide Sartoris (ne+ Kemble, opera singer, writer and society hostess, 1814-1879); Maas Gallery; purchased by Leighton House Museum in 1969 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.24, plate 51