Study for an Unidentified Composition

Drawing details

Title: Study for an Unidentified Composition
Date: c.1862
Media: Pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 cm
Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Picture credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Reference number: 04/1123
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "No 18" in pen and ink.

Interpretation

This statuesque figure holding an infant is similar to the depiction of Romola in the illustration entitled 'At the Well', in Chapter XXXVI, Book III of George Elliot's 'Romola'.

Description

Tracing for a composition including a female figure holding a baby. 

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