View of a Church in Lugliano

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Drawing details

Title: View of a Church in Lugliano
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.124
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left "Lugliano / /59" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

Lugliano is a village in Tuscany, situated just above Bagni di Lucca. In 1859 Leighton travelled to Florence for the wedding of his younger sister.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. View of a church in Lugliano in Italy 

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