Study of a Female Head

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Drawing details

Title: Study of a Female Head
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.2 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "[illegible] figs dull on [illegible] grd / [illegible] mulbs - br. gld & / black arm. knight - white horse / wm pink [illegible] gold sky - / dark br. trees. / /Bl[?] Homer[?] / Blk knight [illegible] do. arm, Do castel / - moon. blk sky /

Interpretation

Most of this page is covered with notes by Leighton, which probably describe a work by another artist.

Description

Page from a sketchbook. Lower left: sketch of the head and shoulders of a female figure, possibly playing a tambourine. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.