Study for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace': Composition

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace': Composition
Date: c.1879
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 14.2 x 25.7 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1177
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "The Industrial Arts as Applied to Peace / 1873 No 16" in pencil. Inscribed lower right "No 121" in pen and ink.

Interpretation

This tracing may have been made in the 1870s when Leighton established the composition of the fresco.

Description

Outline tracing for the composition of the fresco 'The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace' (1884-86, Victoria and Albert Museum, London). The composition is almost identical to that of the finished fresco. The drawing is squared up. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (nTe Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (nTe Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); presented to the Royal Academy of Arts, London by Matthews and Orr in 1896