View of Civita Vecchia, near Rome

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Drawing details

Title: View of Civita Vecchia, near Rome
Date: 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.125
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Civita Vecchia" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

Leighton has inscribed this drawing Civita Vecchia, which is the name of a seaport town, just outside Rome.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. View of Civita Vecchia, 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