View of Fiesole, near Florence

Drawing details

Title: View of Fiesole, near Florence
Date: c.1854-59
Media: Pencil 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.50
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left "Fiesole" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

Fiesole is a small town to the north of Florence in Italy.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of an Italian town including two hooded monks. 

Provenance

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

Related Paintings/Projects

Image of painting unavailable. Album of Drawings, Formerly Belonging to Adelaide Sartoris
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