Humorous Illustrations for Children

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Drawing details

Title: Humorous Illustrations for Children
Date: 1856
Media: Pen and ink and watercolour 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.89
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper left "Bouncing / Baby" in black ink, in the artist's hand. Inscribed upper centre "Spilikens" in black ink, in the artist's hand. Inscribed upper right "Peter / Perky" in black ink, in the artist's hand. Inscribed centre left "Bouncin

Interpretation

The children are named "Bouncing Baby" "Peter Perky" they play "Spilikens", the title of the drawing. The same two children play "Cribbage" in the second illustration. These drawings were probably made to entertain the children of some friends of Leighton's, as he visited the family for Christmas.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Studies of children. 

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