View of Lugliano, near Lucca

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Drawing details

Title: View of Lugliano, near Lucca
Date: 1859
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.119
Inscriptions: Inscribed upper left "Lugliano /59" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

Lugliano is a small hill-town, about 35 miles north of Pisa, overlooking the spa town of Bagni di Lucca, which Leighton also visited.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of a small town and landscape. 

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